Zhang Xin embodies the tagline of the recently released Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Besides being one of China’s lady billionaires, CEO of Soho China, ex-Goldman Sachs employee and mother of two, she can now add Hollywood movie star to the list. Ok, ok, let’s not get ahead of ourselves - but she does have a short cameo in the film starring Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf. Her character represents an unnamed Chinese company that the fictional Goldman character refers to as “Chinese money.” more ›

• Okay, we have to admit the Shanghai Corporate Pavilion looks pretty cool... and its structure is made out of recycled CD cases. Ah, remember when we used to use CDs? [Gizmodo]
• The Golden Grand Prix is this month and everybody's still wondering whether injured Shanghainese poster boy Liu Xiang will appear. [Reuters]
• Soho is opening in China and it's going to be in Jing'an. They are targeting Chinese, not foreign, businesses. [Forbes]

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• Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead and others injured (an indirect culprit - Manhattan's hot real estate market, causing rushed construction jobs).
• Shanghaiist is confused by media reports as to whether Playboy will be available in China during the year of the Olympics.
• LAist got fugged in an interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls.

We -ists are an eclectic bunch, but there's a couple of things we all love: famous people, social causes, and wacky local facts. Join us as we starf**k, get virtuous, and learn across the -ist network! more ›

Basically people post photos in the forum and other people comment on them. Lots of pics of mini skirts and tall boots. There are main threads for Shanghai, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Europe/America. more ›

Photo by 2 dogs taken from the Shanghaiist photos page. To see your photos on our photos page, use Flickr and tag your photos "shanghaiist". Or you can email your photos to photos@shanghaiist.com and they will automatically appear on our site. more ›

According to this post in the Shanghai section of Baidu's "posts" pages, the following are the numbers for Shanghai's GDP and per capita income starting in 2004 and assuming a 14 percent growth rate until 2010-2011, when the World Expo will boost the GDP growth to a whopping 35 percent! The first figure is in "100 millions", so the first number is 702.92 billion. The last sentence indicates the corresponding figures for New York City, based on a 2% annual growth rate, and as you can see, Shanghai's per capita income will be slightly above 60 percent of New York's by that time. We just hope that our "Soho" is only 60 percent of the price of New York's! more ›

We just came across an interesting New York Times article about art, design and architecture in China. Much of it deals with the work of Ai Weiwei, an artist and designer (and son of famed poet Ai Qing), who has created a number of interesting living spaces, such as loft complexes, where the living space is near to or combined with gallery space: more ›