We're not sure what it was about this photo that had us cracking up for over an hour, but we had to post it. Apparently Li Yuchun (also affectionately known as “Brother Chun”), winner of the 2005 Super Girl singing contest, has gotten a replica of herself placed in Shanghai's Madam Tussauds. more ›

Zhang Liangying (张靓颖), called the dolphin princess for her wide range, appears on Oprah to discuss the phenomenon: Super Voice Girl (which incidentally is being revived as Happy Girls this season). Oprah seems taken aback by the amount of people who watched the show (400 million! 400 MILLION!) and hilariously translates Mengniu into "Mongolian Cow." Oh yeah, and Zhang Liangying performs and then talks about how much she loves Mariah Carey. more ›

Shanghaiist was thinking about how to characterize a movie like this: We mulled over “worst movie we’ve ever seen,” and thought this too harsh, as there are probably loads of worse movies that we’ve seen but have repressed the memory of. And we hope the same happens with this movie. more ›

GigShanghai: Booty, 'touching guitars' and Supergirl?!? more ›

At least they don't lag behind in anything important!

Shanghaiist reported about the My Hero show recently and not so recently, and so here we are again, bringing you periodic reports from the frontlines. more ›

Photo by eiro 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 ›

Photo by Shanghai Streets 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 ›

Photo from south.com.cn. more ›

Yao Ming is tall. He is also good at basketball. We already told you that. He is also China's top celebrity, three years running, according to Forbes. The list takes into account all that is important in life: income, television appearances, newspaper mentions, magazine covers, internet searches, and the like. (Hmmmm. We do a lot of internet searches and we weren't ranked. Likely because we weren't born in Mainland China. Same reason why Jay Chou isn't on the list.) more ›

) competition, will soon appear on collector's stamps throughout China. For its incorporation of SMS voting into its decision-making process, cultural critic Zhu Dake declared Super Voice Girls "blazed a trail for cultural democracy" in China. China National Philatelic Corp. is eager to cash in on that trailblazing, as they are set to issue a series of eight stamps (RMB 36) and a set of eight commemorative envelopes (RMB 38) designed by Guo Chenghui. more ›

Shanghaiist is still recovering from a bout of PSVGSS (Post Super Voice Girl Stress Syndrome). Thankfully, the government is here to help us by removing words and phrases such as "PK" from the media. This, along with other well-known phrases such as "MM" (美眉, meaning "pretty girl") are the target of a new law taking effect on March 1 that aims to clamp down on the rampant use of internet and media inspired neologisms. The article (in Chinese) that we read this in also states that only standard Chinese should be used in schools and official documents and that no signs for stores and businesses be purely in foreign (non-Chinese) languages. On the surface, this seems like a rather prissy but otherwise innocuous law, but if you keep digging, as Shanghaiist always does, you will discover that "[t]he invention of new words [is] regarded as a symptom of certain psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia." more ›

• Shanghai company to start manufacturing hybrid cars. Wonder if the government will ban these, too.
• For those of you who have always wanted to lick a Super Voice Girl ... now is your chance.
• No one knows when Memoirs of a Geisha will hit Chinese movie theaters.

Everyone knows that bloggers are a nutty group and that Chinese bloggers are no exception. Shanghaiist fears the wild world that is the Chinese blogosphere if only because we don't want our heads to explode. But we've been feeling a bit more daring recently, and after cautiously dipping a toe in the water, we've come to conclusion that there's some strange stuff out there that you need to know about. more ›

, produced and broadcast by the state-owned Hunan Province Satellite Television Station. The program's full name is Mengniu Yoghurt Super Voice Girls -- Mengniu being one of China's leading dairy product brands. more ›