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A few months ago, we informed you of the latest information about the 15th edition of CBS' Survivor: China, to be held...in China (surpise, surprise). In a few short weeks, the show will debut after filming its episodes during July and August. As the stentorian narrator in this early promo for the show says, "For the first time, a major American show goes behind the Great Wall to shoot entirely in China. It's a place...

Still recovering from your May Holiday partying? Well, there's no respite. Here are a few things that Shanghaiist is keeping an eye on over the coming week.

On Friday, Chinese protesters clashed with Japanese coast guard ships and helicopters off the coast of the East China Sea islets, known as the Diaoyutai (钓鱼岛) in China and the Senkakus in Japan. The islands are located 170 km (100 miles) northeast of Taiwan and 410 km (250 miles) west of Japan's Okinawa island are a long-standing source of dispute between China and Japan. In brief, Japan claimed the islands in 1895 when it colonized Taiwan, but the United States controlled them after World War II and returned them to Japan in 1972. While they are currently administered by Japan, the Diaoyutai are independently claimed by Japan, China, and Taiwan. The islands are uninhabited but surrounded by rich fishing waters, and it is believed that they sit above vast underwater oil and gas deposits.

Noted Chinese economist Stephen Cheung (aka Zhang Wuchang or 张五常), recently caught some people's attention with an essay that appeared in Hong Kong's Apple Daily in which he argued that China should open up the tomb of Qin Shi Huang (秦始皇) near Xi'an. Cheung argues that opening up the tomb would be economically sound, increasing tourist revenue by what he estimates to be billions of RMB. Furthermore, he says that this is the best time to do so, since Beijing is hosting the Olympics and Shanghai the World Expo (i.e. shitload of foreign tourists), and because the technology for preserving whatever is inside is adequate. He also says against the naysayers that this tomb isn't really worth anything until you open it up and see what is inside.