Results tagged “yangxiong”

The wearing of jammies in public: amongst people who have been in the city for less than 15 minutes, no issue has better served as a focal point for passion and vitriol. But what of the people who have been here longer? The so-called “lifers” who have lived in Shanghai for 16, 17 and, in some cases, 18 minutes? These have been eerily silent on the issue, avoiding it in public conversation, referring to the phenomenon only furtively from behind closed doors and in darkened back rooms.

“When the lights go down in the city, and the sun shines on the bay …” While we pay tribute to the great 80s band Journey and our friends at SFist, Shanghaiist brings you this interesting tidbit, announced by Yang Xiong, Deputy Mayor of Shanghai, on Wednesday:

The majority of Chinese parents are well-versed to the phrase "when in doubt, beat it out", choosing to physically discipline their children, and the poor little tykes are also not getting enough sleep.

At approximately 1:30 this morning, a section of Huaihai Zhong Lu was flooded by what Shanghaiist suspects was a broken water main. Local residents -- Shanghaiist included -- trudged up the sidewalk in waist-deep murky brown water to higher ground. The area affected seemed to begin around the corner of Wulumuqi Lu, by the old US Consulate building, and continue past Ambassy Court down to the Shanghai Library. At least one Dazhong taxi was stranded in the center of the street where the water was about one meter deep. Police cars blocked the street as officers looked on in bewildered amazement.