WARNING: GORY IMAGES This video clip is circulating big time on the Chinese internet right now, and has received over 470,000 hits and 5,000 comments on Youku within less than a day. And it is just plain disgusting. A security guard at Wenzhou University beats a helpless dog to death as students videotape from above. From the sounds of the students yelling out to the security guard, we imagine they are at a student dormitory.... more ›

At a recent Andy Lau concert in Chengdu, one fan managed to slip past the watchful eye of the security guards to get to the stage so as to present a bouquet of flowers to the mega-popstar. As soon as he got down though, he was surrounded by a mob of security guards and manhandled by them (it is not clear from the video whether the fan was actually hit by the guards). Upon seeing... more ›

Via China Net Investor, this interview of the founders of Shanghai-based dot.com Tudou.com, Gary Wang and Marc van der Chijs, serves up one very juicy tidbit of information — that Tudou.com is already streaming more minutes of video content every month than YouTube (15 billion minutes per month versus 3.5 billion)! Then in a self-deprecatory turn, Wang turns around to say that those numbers are never really accurate. more ›

Virtual China introduces us to a new bilingual job website called MeiJob.com: "An AJAX-powered job search engine, with personal and company profiles, email alerts, notes, and a really, really shiny logo." more ›

Virtual China calls MyTshirt.cn "China's Threadless," and yes the design-your-own-T-shirt concept in nothing new (in fact, on its main page MyTshirt.cn links to all the other similar sites it was "inspired" by). But MyTshirt.cn is the only one of those sites in Chinese and, we assume, it is by far the cheapest. You could have a basic T-shirt arrive at your doorstep for as little as 41 kuai. more ›

The odd little ad shown above was the fourth most watched video on Mofile during the past year. It's about donating blood. more ›

Photo by raincontreras taken from the Shanghaiist Contribute page. To see your photos on our Contribute 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 ›

Not that you needed reminding, but the World Cup kicks off in about four hours. That means you have less than four hours to join Shanghaiist's World Cup Challenge -- it's free and it should be fun. (There are 37 entries so far. It is our opinion that "Shanghai Cooperation Organization" would be a great name for an entry ... and it's still available ... although it may be too many letters ... find out for yourself!) more ›

More crazy crowd photos at 163.com. more ›

(characterize) themselves in hopes of finding like minded people. Tags for this contributor? “Shanghaiist”, “Boonna” and “Kristie Lu Stout fan” are just a few tags that come to mind. The site hasn’t been around for long -- all of 13 people from Shanghai, well 14 now. more ›

Photo by CAI Yan 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 ›

Via Virtual China, we learn that popular Chinese instant messaging software company and internet portal QQ (no relation to the Chinese car) is launching its own brand of instant noodles, to be sold at internet cafes. Now Chinese teenagers have no reason to go offline! more ›

Via Boing Boing, we learned of a great China blog called Virtual China. The post that caught Boing Boing's eye is entitled "what's on the BBS today: the inventiveness of farmers" and it highlights some of the "DIY projects" China's farmers are undertaking (likely with all the free time they have thanks to a land-grab). Two of their efforts are pictured. more ›