Yao Ming showed up to report for class at Shanghai Jiaotong University in Minhang district today, and had the misfortune of getting his picture taken while standing next to a Buick minivan. more ›

Here, Shanghai, were your favourite stories for the month of August: more ›

Shanghai Jiaotong University (SJTU) has released its fifth annual Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) which saw American universities take eight of the top ten spots. Harvard University emerged right on top, followed by Stanford University and University of California-Berkeley. Britain's Oxford and Cambridge -- the only two non-American universities to make it to the top ten -- secured the fourth and tenth positions respectively. The top university in Asia was the University of Tokyo, edging in at the twentieth spot. more ›

Researcher Vic Callaghan of the University of Essex and Liping Shen of Shanghai Jiaotong University have developed a emotion tracking ring which can "analyze physical signs to keep track of a student's attention span, their level of understanding, and even the amount of stress a certain lesson produces." The point of this is to help with long-distance, online learning, where the teacher does not have the benefit of face to face interaction and feedback with the students. The ring uses Bluetooth technology to transmit information about the user/student to educational software which then may change the way it delivers information, for example by switching from text to video, or changing topics when the user feels bored. more ›

Shanghaiist was scanning the Shanghai Morning Post and decided, after reading just the main headlines, that we could indeed spare the seven jiao needed to purchase this paper. On the top left hand corner we noticed an ad for 嗨！ 上海 (最 HIGH 的 上海生活门户） which translates to "Hi! Shanghai (the most HIGH Shanghai lifestyle portal)". What we found there was a cookie-cutter portal which tries to be everything for everyone. more ›