Left: In Juyuan, great mourning among the surivors who are left to pick up the broken pieces. Right: In Dujiangyan, heavy wreckage, collapsed buildings, great grief and a city that's been ground to a halt. Left: In Dujiangyan, rescue workers are in a race against time to save more lives. Right: Chengdu residents queue up to donate blood.......

Shanghai-based Daedalum Films takes you on a walk through the Song Qing Ling Memorial (宋庆龄陵园), a little known cemetery in western Shanghai home to the remains of Song Qing Ling, numerous other Chinese personalities — and scores of foreigners who came to Shanghai mostly during its early boom years in the mid-1800s and early 1900s, some identified by simple gravestones, and some anonymous. Song Qing Ling Memorial, 21 Song Yuan Lu (宋园路21号). Map.......

We can see it now. Fast-forward to 2010. An ancient Tibetan god called Gozer arrives atop an apartment building near Xintiandi in Shanghai, where it tells the neighborhood's restaurateurs that the next thing they think of will be the form Gozer will assume to destroy their world. Despite their efforts to clear their minds, Bob Boyce imagines Haibao, the irksome mascot of the 2010 World Expo. As he explains, Haibao "just popped in there" as......

An Associated Press video on the Taiwanese Presidential elections Just in time for Easter, YouTube has come back from the dead after an absence of around a week. As we reported last week, the block was most likely due to certain sensitive content, a move that has left some people questioning whether Google/YouTube were involved at all. Unfortunately, its resurrection doesn't appear to be fully complete — some video clips don't seem to load......

'The Easter Bunny Hates You' from Black20.com The Easter Bunny, skipping along with its little basket of Easter eggs and floppy ears, is really cute right? Wrong. Sure, for one day of the year this fairy-tale creature might be an adorable chocolate-distributing fluffy friend, but for the other 364 days it's an absolute animal. Like the video? See how it all started after the jump.......

From Al-Jazeera English:The Beijing Olympics are still 5 months away but they're attracting attention for all the wrong reasons. Human rights campaigners have been staging protests, demanding China be called to account for its human rights record in Tibet. Owen Fay reports on protests designed to place pressure on Beijing. Related stories: New York Times: Tibetan Marchers Arrested in India AHN: Tibetan Exiles Embark On Hunger Strike In India To Protest Against Arrests International Herald......

UPDATE 3: Photo slideshow by Jake Newby UPDATE 2: By Wee Ling Soh Wondering if anyone else thinks the gig was too short or if Björk sang too few songs that we know. Ok so we like her but not to the extent of knowing lyrics to every single song like the girl behind us, and who made it clear everyone in the vicinity should know by drowning out Björk's haunting voice every chance she......

SHANGHAI By Morgan Paar and Bedi Ye of Fashion Trend Digest BEIJING By Racheld h/t to CDT......

If you've been in China for a while, you will more likely than not have been a witness to the frequent scuffles between street sellers, store owners and the guys from the city cops, or the 城管, who are technically not "police" but rather "city administration" and "street management" guys. Most illegal street sellers and hawkers like your DVD salesmen and lamb kebab guys will typically just pack up their stuff and make a quick......

Videos from Vision Rouge and lizandro01 Make your own timelapse video and send it to us at info AT shanghaiist DOT com!......

You just have to give it to Furong Jiejie (芙蓉姐姐) — the "grandmommy" of Chinese Internet idols — for her remarkable ability to constantly reinvent herself to keep herself in the news. Recently dumped by her boyfriend for revealing too much of herself, Furong Jiejie has now declared that she's looking for a hunky laowai boyfriend. Many moons ago, she once said she's not into laowai's, but apparently that has all changed (oh the miracles......

Eating with chopsticks can be tricky for those of us who first picked them up quite late in life. Even though we've been using them for a while, our frequent spillages suggest that we need to refine our chopstick wielding skills. Success in this endeavour will generate the same level of praise hitherto reserved for baby faced Channel V presenters and NBA basketball stars. We may exaggerate, but thanks to Gomestic (via Lifehacker) we have......

Videos of the Zhengzhou student riots that we mentioned in our last post have now surfaced on the internet. In addition to the one on the right, which is from a news broadcast, we also found this jerky, blurry, cameraphone video of some students trying to overturn a car. To recap: Situation started with a female student vendor getting violently beaten by two city inspectors (城管) to the point that some of her teeth were......

Tech Flocks To Shanghai "According to a report from Russell Reynolds Associates based on Shanghai government statistics, 144 foreign companies now have their Asia-Pacific headquarters in Shanghai, 48 of which established operations there only in the last year." City traffic police tougher on jaywalking "Besides receiving a verbal reminder of the violation, jaywalkers and cyclists will be fined between five yuan to 50 yuan, depending on their behavior and attitude." Shanghai Surprise "If you......

Even as the stores sport back to school sales (which depress us, even now), summer lingers on your friends the -ists. This week's collection of links provides some of the best, worst, and oddest bits of summer fun. So, bring your laptop up onto the roof, make yourself an umbrella drink or ten, and enjoy this week's choice posts from across the Gothamist network. Torontoist (where it's 75 degrees F as of this writing) is......

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. Houstonist announces their new Cops spinoff "World's Funniest Tazer Videos" and the possible cancellation of their pervs' "World's Grossest Bathroom Videos" and PBS trains cams on cows at, uhg, Mootube. Also,......