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Wild elephant attacks American tourist

Wild elephant attacks American tourist

Everyone is complaining about the snow and how difficult it makes walking dogs, getting cabs, getting out of train stations and how ayi is on holiday for the next couple weeks. This Shanghaiist has been inspired by the words of Doctor Seuss:

“When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad… You should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you’re really quite lucky! Some people are much more…Oh, ever so much more…Oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!”
For example, this guy is muchly much-much more unlucky. more ›

Three biggest <em>Chunjie</em> threats 2008

Three biggest Chunjie threats 2008

Some members of the Shanghaiist team are about to embark on ambitious Chinese New Year's expeditions. We wish everyone planning similar journeys a happy and safe trip. So you know what to look for, we're starting a list of the three biggest threats to your life as the year of the rat begins. more ›

Live Music: Marta Sebestyen, Twisted Machine and Rock for Roots & Shoots

Live Bar has always been open to different genres of music, and of late, seems to be the venue of choice for Chinese folk, metal and student bands. Friday night they will host one of China's most popular nu-metal bands, Twisted Machine. Any fan of metal should not miss this show, a great chance to see what Chinese metal has to offer. On the other side of town, up'n'coming indie rockers, Yuguo will play an... more ›

China Blog Parade: June 2-9, 2007

China Blog Parade: June 2-9, 2007

Our round-up of some of last week's highlights from China's English-language blogosphere: more ›

See the Great 'Paul' of China on TV

Comic Paul Merton has recently been touring China, making a light hearted documentary that is currently being aired on Channel Five in the UK. If the few clips we have seen are anything to go by, then this follows the best tradition of whimsical British travelogues such as Louis Theroux's Wild Weekend. more ›

Today's Links: McMuffins, banned horns and bad medicine

Today's Links: McMuffins, banned horns and bad medicine



  • "Shanghai is about to become a quieter city - from June 1, drivers of cars, mopeds and bikes will be banned from blaring horns within the Outer Ring Road." We don't see this being enforced.




  • "Shanghai's Oriental Pearl TV Tower and Wild Animal Park were crowned as two of China's top-grade scenic spot, according to a list today published on the official Website of the country's tourism watchdog." Watching ducklings die = top-grade.




  • "China's Ding Junhui will be able to play two ranking events on home soil next season after Tuesday's announcement that the inaugural Shanghai Masters will take place in August." The sport is snooker.




  • "The Starbucks decision actually came down earlier this year, but Brad wrote the post now to extol the fact that Xingbake (after losing to Starbucks) just changed its name and taken down all offending signage."




  • "And by 'intimate, personal' they mean 'smaller, pricier.' And by 'design-conscious travelers' they mean 'fucking retards.' The article is insipidly subtitled 'to the delight of savvy travelers, boutique hotels are finally sprouting up in Asia.'"




  • "The Pudong New Area People's Court ruled the store had defrauded consumers because it had turned the best-before date on the imported cookies into the production date on the Chinese-language label."




  • "Tim Fenton, head of McDonald's Asia-Pacific unit, said in a telephone interview that breakfast is a 'long-term strategy' in China, where the first meal of the day is more likely to include rice porridge with pork or mushrooms than eggs or hashbrowns."




  • "As the environment ministry said pollution across the country was getting worse, China signed five joint agreements yesterday with the European Union, as the United Nations marked International Biodiversity Day."




  • "Sculptor Mark Armstrong cuts an ice block in a basement on Huaihai Road Middle this morning. About 40 tons of ice has been transported from northern Sweden to build city's first ice bar, which is scheduled to open next month." At least our third ice bar.




  • "Shanghai Bites essays to uncover the best of the 'xiao chi' experience in Shanghai, as well as other comfort foods and occasional glimpses at “the other half” of food in Shanghai. "




  • "About 200,000 people die in China each year from improper use of drugs, Chinese doctors and pharmacists say, and they are calling for greater efforts to educate consumers."




  • "Buildings in Rizhao, a coastal city of nearly three million on the Shandong Peninsula in northern China, have a common yet unique appearance: most rooftops and walls are covered with small panels. They are solar heat collectors."




  • "For the second time in weeks, a Chinese drug or food product has been singled out as a threat overseas. ... In both cases, Chinese producers said they believed the use of the chemicals to be safe and knew of no rules regulating their use."




  • “'Ghost shares' are highly risky, but 'black horses' have beaten expectations. Buying cheap to sell high later is known as 'fighting for the hat', while selling at a loss to avoid further losses is 'meat slicing'."




  • "The government looks set to back down from its long-held intention of imposing real-name registration for the country's 20 million bloggers following protests from the industry."


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    Photo by Slow Boat To China found via the Shanghaiist Contribute page. more ›

    Pencil This In: What's coming up this week in Shanghai

    Pencil This In: What's coming up this week in Shanghai

    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. more ›

    Live ducks fed to crocs at Shanghai Wild Animal Park

    Late last year, Shanghaiist ran several stories on the abhorrent Animal Olympics event held in Shanghai. Such was the media and public backlash against this event, we didn't expect to see performances of its ilk again in Shanghai. Optimists like us are often proven wrong. Shanghai Wild Animal Park, the organisers of last year's Animal Olympics, appear to be up to their old tricks. more ›

    Today's Links: St. Lucia, mistresses and p0rn

    Today's Links: St. Lucia, mistresses and p0rn



  • "Tough-talking Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi is to meet with key Congressional panels during her visit to Washington this month for a "strategic economic dialogue" launched by the two powers in December, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said."




  • A survey found that the standard of living of migrant workers isonly about one half of that of city residents.




  • "The police officer's actions in firing his revolver in the air sparked further fierce clashes with protesters and was attacked by critics as heavy-handed and an affront to freedom of expression."




  • "St. Lucia indicated last week that if it resumed relations with Taipei, it would still want to be friends with Beijing. The Chinese Embassy sent a rebuff on Friday, saying that China does not accept 'double recognition.'"




  • "With no more investment than a computer and a taste for taking risks, several dozen Webbased investigative journalists have set up sites and started advertising their willingness—for a price—to look into scandals that traditional reporters cannot tou




  • "Authorities believe Mak, a naturalized U.S. citizen, took thousands of pages of documents from his defense contractor employer, Power Paragon of Anaheim, and gave them to his brother, who passed them along to Chinese authorities over a number of years."




  • "...A much larger inheritance battle has transfixed Hong Kong residents: a will purported to have been written by one of the world's wealthiest women, Nina Wang, leaving her feng shui adviser an estate estimated at more than $3 billion."




  • "From June 1 any official found to be keeping a mistress will face dismissal. Government officials, who are usually men, frequently socialise in the evening as part of their job. "




  • "A bear riding a bicycle is chased by his trainer during an animal performance for the Chinese May Day holidays at the Shanghai Wild Animal Park."




  • "Colonial-era war graves in Hong Kong have been left riddled with schoolboy spelling errors, including China spelt Cihna and Hong Kong spelt Honc Honc after a renovation project, a news report said on Wednesday."




  • "Danshui Lu is so warmly old school urban living, it begs the question: what bad road is life taking us down when we forgo this type of community living for an overly stylized, space wasting, luxury flat on the 27 floor of some soulless concrete tower?"




  • "Chinese police have received more than 13,000 reports about pornographic material on the internet since the nation launched a campaign to restrict the spread of online pornography on April 12." Only 13,000?




  • "The comment was among insights Yang shared with more than 1,000 Chinese and US technology entrepreneurs gathered in the California city of Santa Clara to discuss opportunities and challenges presented by the meteoric growth of China's economy."




  • "Tourists disgusted by stinking toilets at Chinese tourist sites or even angrier because they can't locate it are in for a pleasant surprise in east China - a 'restroom revolution' is taking shape before their eyes and noses."




  • "Chinese netizens spend ten times more money on the internet than people in developed countries. A World Bank report ... reports Chinese netizens spend an average of 83.5 yuan on the internet every month, more than 10 percent of their monthly income."


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    Photo by jules_shanghai found via the Shanghaiist Contribute page. more ›

    The 2007 China Baseball League schedule

    The 2007 China Baseball League schedule

    Would you believe that we get emails fairly regularly from people looking for even the most basic information about the China Baseball League? We wrote a story about the pro league back in 2004, and it's a testament to how little English info about the league exists out there that it's still one of most widely read CBL sources on the internet (it helps that Wikipedia linked to it). And so we have people asking us about everything from how they can play in the league to how they can watch a game ... or even if the league exists anymore (and lately that actually has been a pretty good question). Shanghaiist's last post about the CBL came in July 2005. Shortly thereafter the league saw a change at the top — Tom McCarthy, the American who helped found the league, left, and when he did, information about the league in English dried up (look, their English website still thinks it is April 2005). And throughout last season, the Chinese version of the site sat unchanged, as well. (Tianjin beat Guangdong for the title, for those of you still on the edge of your seat.) We think we're going to give the CBL another chance in 2007, however. They've updated and redesigned their website (they even have a countdown to opening day ... which is Friday). And we're really jonesing to watch some baseball action. The MLB season has started, but our satellite TV is down and we've been too lazy/busy to burn or buy a new card and we doubt our internet connection could handle MLB.tv. And while the CBL is a far cry from the big leagues (or even the minor leagues) there's something nice about an afternoon spent at the ballpark. And where is the Shanghai ballpark? Well, the Eagles are back in Pudong's Congbei Stadium, near the intersection of Yunlian Lu (云连路) and Qihe Lu (齐河路) . Here is a map and public transportation directions (in Chinese) courtesy of Baidu. You'll see that it is much easier to hop in a cab. We called up a college student who we met at a game a couple years ago (his English name is Goose) and he hooked us up with the 2007 China Baseball League Schedule, which you can see in English and Chinese by pressing on the "Continue reading ..." link below. Goose also invited Shanghaiist readers to visit his baseball BBS website. So check out the schedule, after the jump, but keep in mind that Shanghai's first home game isn't until April 20. Maybe we'll see you there? If the concessions situation is the same as it was in the past, we should plan on packing our own beer and hot dogs, not to mention peanuts and Cracker Jacks. Also on Shanghaiist
    Beijing Tigers could win China baseball crown today
    Wild Pitch? Major League Baseball to open China office
    Ouch! China clobbered by Japan in World Baseball Classic Related
    Basbeall league gets Japanese help (Xinhua)
    In search of baseball's Yao Ming (Shanghai Diaries)
    MLB invests in China’s baseball growth (Shanghai Diaries)
    Take me out to the bangqiu bisai (Shanghai Diaries)
    Buy me some peanuts and … soy sauce rice crackers? (Shanghai Diaries) Photo of Goose from danwashburn.com. more ›

    This Week In -ist: Elsewhere in the Gothamist Network

    This Week In -ist: Elsewhere in the Gothamist Network

    We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. more ›

    What are the best Chinese movies and movie lines?

    What are the best Chinese movies and movie lines?

    The best overall movie goes to Farewell My Concubine (霸王别姬), which, in the voting that started from Feb. 9, accumulated 75% of the vote, with the runner-up being Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (卧虎藏龙) at 7%. The films are mostly from the 1980s and 1990s, with heavy doses of Ang Lee and Zhang Yimou. more ›

    True Blue: A night with Shanghai's football hardcore

    True Blue: A night with Shanghai's football hardcore

    Wild scenes of celebration, drunken tomfoolery, and a stampede of autograph hunters scrambling over tables and chairs were highlights of the evening as major stars from the world of Chinese football attended a fans event in the city on Saturday night. more ›

    Now <em>you</em> can smell like Shanghai!

    Now you can smell like Shanghai!

    We used to work with an English girl named Catherine who would speak of "Eau de Shanghai" in a joking manner whenever we would walk past an alleyway that exuded one of our city's more heinous distinctive smells. We think Catherine would be amused by a product we discovered today — yes, Shanghai Perfume. Evidently, it's been around since 2003. more ›

    Is nothing sacred?!?! Shanghai Animal Olympics canceled

    Is nothing sacred?!?! Shanghai Animal Olympics canceled

    What would be your response if we were to pose the question, "what is better than a black bear and a white Siberian tiger sporting traditional sevillanas dresses, adorned with flowers and dancing a Spanish Flamenco under the bright lights of a ballroom platform, televised for all of the world to see?" Well, if you're like us, then kangaroo boxing and monkey-ostrich pair jousting may come to mind. But, now, it seems that some international group of party-poopers* known as "animal rights advocates" have deprived Shanghailanders of the one sure-fire joy of living in China: the Shanghai Animal Olympics has been canceled. more ›

    How you can help stop the Shanghai Animal Olympics

    How you can help stop the Shanghai Animal Olympics

    Late last month, we told you about the Shanghai Wild Animal Olympics, and we probably didn't infuse the post with the proper amount of outrage. Thankfully, some commenters picked up our slack and even directed readers to the animalsasia.org website, which includes information on how you can help put an end to such disgusting displays. We will now quote that information here: more ›

    Wild Animal Olympics being held in Shanghai

    Wild Animal Olympics being held in Shanghai

    The events are being held in the Wild Animal Park in Nanhui. more ›

    China to allow foreigners to hunt wild animals

    China to allow foreigners to hunt wild animals

    And we're not talking about those wild 20 year olds looking for man meat from the state of Washington -- we mean yaks and wolves and the like: more ›

    The best music of 2006 ... so far

    The best music of 2006 ... so far

    Shanghaiist asked its contributors (and a few "music people" in town) to list their five favorite albums released (or yet-to-be released) somewhere in the world in 2006. Got a list of your own? Submit your favorite 2006 music as a comment to this post. Enjoy! more ›

    How many lives does Keith Richards have left?

    How many lives does Keith Richards have left?

    Our guess: two. By now, you have likely heard of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards and his run-in with a coconut tree. But did you know he almost suffered what sounds like it could have been a much more serious head injury in Shanghai? On stage? Danwei has the dirt: more ›

    This week in <em>-ist</em>: What's happening around the Gothamist Network

    This week in -ist: What's happening around the Gothamist Network

    Shanghaiist probably knows a little more about China than the Chicago Sun-Times. Giving them the benefit of the doubt on that one. The city does to have a music scene. Don't even front like they don't. They also have Dorito bananas. What they don't have is any more tolerance for jaywalkers. more ›

    Extra! Extra! Wild boar, wrecking balls and mandated creativity

    Extra! Extra! Wild boar, wrecking balls and mandated creativity

    Photo by CaptainVideo 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 ›

    Rolling Stones play for 'expat bankers and their girlfriends'

    Rolling Stones play for 'expat bankers and their girlfriends'

    We didn't go to the Rolling Stones concert last night. And we have only heard from one person who did go, second hand at that. Here's the message we received today: more ›

    Sole Search: Bird flu cleaning Shanghai's shoes

    Sole Search: Bird flu cleaning Shanghai's shoes

    China admitted earlier this week that the bird flu situation here is "grave," especially for the 2,600 dead birds found in Inner Mongolia. Now, quite suddenly it seems, Shanghai is starting to act like it is taking the threat seriously (and Shanghaiist is having SARS flashbacks, like when immediately after the government stopped lying to the people and Shanghai University gave all the foreign teachers a thermometer ... and vitamins). It was announced yesterday that all travelers arriving in Shanghai by air, land or sea will have the soles of their shoes sterilized. We couldn't find anywhere exactly how the shoes will be sterilized, or how they plan to pull this off -- that's a helluva lot of feet to clean. Luggage and packages will also be checked more thoroughly, sometimes by sniffing dogs with a nose for poultry. So, if you are in the habit of gnawing on those nastly looking vacuum-packed chicken legs they sell at all major transportation hubs in China, finish up and throw the bones out the window before crossing the border. more ›

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