Our favourite newspaper Shanghai Daily reports:
HANGZHOU city government is to give Maria Fernanda, a Uruguayan woman who rescued a would-be suicide at the city's West Lake, a "righteous award" to recognize her courage and benevolence, officials said yesterday.more ›
Remember the woman who saved a girl attempting suicide in Hangzhou's West Lake? Earlier media reports said she's American. Well, apparently she's a Uruguayan expatriate living here in Shanghai with her husband, and her name is Maria Fernandes.
"When she jumped into the lake, the drowning woman was about 20 meters away from the pavilion and was sinking. I could only see her hair," Liu said. "But the foreign lady swam quickly to her, held up her chin with one hand and used the other to swim back."
High-speed “G” train service from Shanghai to Hangzhou is slated to begin on October 26th, making it that much easier to take in the views of West Lake, eat some dongporou and walk through the Longjing tea fields.
What’s going on with Shanghai’s white collar workers these days? What are some of the things they do to alleviate the boredom of the 9-to-5 life and add some spice into their lives? What are the trendmakers among this silent majority saying and doing?
The famous first line of Tang dynasty poet Bai Juyi's poem on the Jiangnan region goes like this: 江南忆，最忆是杭州 (I recall fondly Jiangnan, and most of all Hangzhou). Well, Hangzhou's been getting its fair share of media buzz lately. For example, Taiwan's Lien Chan, who of late has become the Kuomintang (Chinese Nationalist) Party's ambassador of good will to China, was mugging it up there yesterday with his surgically enhanced wife. We hear that a f*ckload lot of people are going to be around during the World Expo in 2010, and the 27 minute Maglev train will make trips between Shanghai and Hangzhou a breeze. In fact, it could be even faster than that, but they have to slow down the trains:
Spanish-language blog chinochano admits -- partly in English, for our enjoyment -- to being a little "flag crazy" and laments the fact that China only has one flag, the national one, and no regional or provincial banners. His solution? Let local beer labels symbolize the provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Tsingtao for Shandong. Yanjing for Beijing. Dali for Yunnan. West Lake for Zhejiang. Hapi for Heilongjiang. And Lhasa for Tibet. He didn't mention one for Shanghai -- will we soon be standing and saluting to ... um ... REEB? (Did you know there is a REEB Dark now?) chinochano also directs us to this fantastic collection of Chinese beer labels. Hmmm. Perhaps we should swap out our REEB flag for this Shanghai beer label featuring the image of -- you guessed it -- French movie star Alain Delon.
If you choose to undergo the necessary procedures for hiring a car, or even easier, borrowing a friends, then where to go?
Last weekend was quite a stunner, what with Japanese punk, Korean horror-movie music, and a new addition to the C's revival (better than "200 people turning up to DKD wearing mp3 players and dancing in their own heads all night"); but we live in the city where 酒不醉人人自醉 ("people, rather than alcohol, enebriate") and with a population of 13 million, the party doesn't stop so easily. Read on for this week's contributions to our city's tradition of bacchanalia.
