A new documentary following the Chinese artist/activist Ai Weiwei was met with rapturous applause at its Sundance Film Festival screening on Sunday. more ›

Crossing the Line - a documentary by VeryMuchSo Productions with Koryo Tours more ›

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. more ›

The short film Ha Ha Ha America (watch it here), which recently appeared at the Sundance Film Festival, bills itself as a "translated harangue from China to the U.S.A. that laughs at our missteps." Are the Chinglish subtitles that serve as narrator for this 17-minute masturbatory farce really a translation of some nationalistic Chinese rant? Doubtful. Does the message come from China at all? Again, doubtful. The director is named Jon Daniel Ligon, and he apparently attended the University of Michigan in the 1980s. We gather that the movie was Ligon's way of issuing a wake-up call to the American government. But the movie, admittedly amusing at first in a cheap way, displays a very simplistic world-view, only a partial understanding of U.S.-China relations and the butchering of several "facts." The movie insults both Chinese people and Americans. Maybe the filmmakers figured that made it OK? more ›

Admitted Luddite and one-time Shanghaiist contributor Paul French sent Shanghaiist, and several others, this email recently (or, knowing Paul, he had his secreatry send it). We thought we'd share: more ›