Those on Metro Line 11 will get to travel five more stops coming Monday. The line, which right now extends from Jiangsu Lu to North Jiading, will also go through Shanghai Circuit (上海赛车场)and Shanghai Automobile City (上海汽车城), great news for anyone hoping to catch the Formula One race. The ride to the circuit from downtown [...]
We’d been waiting for Danwei to post this video on a more GFW friendly site (if you want to see the original on Youtube, it’s up on Danwei.org) and they didn’t fail us! Awesome. Check out Julien Gaudfroy, a rare Western face in the Chinese tradition of cross talk (相声 xiang sheng)
Cross talk has [...]
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If investment is, in fact, directly proportionate to results, then you might one day be able to wave goodbye to the lingering cloud of pollution that keeps your skin ghostly white year-round. According to a new report called Who’s Winning the Clean Energy Race? China outspent every [...]
Copenhagen’s iconic Little Mermaid statue is now bound for Shanghai, where she will grace the Danish pavilion at the World Expo for the entire six months. Most interestingly, when the statue leaves, it will be replaced by a video installation created by none other than… Ai Weiwei. [Shanghai Daily]
Xing Zhao interviews one Shanghai [...]
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There are jobs everywhere in China. For the majority of the good one’s, you need some contacts. But, one can come, and many do, without konwing anyone nor speaking Chinese, and still make a decent living. At a minimum one can teach English, and private classes can garner you [...]
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In China they still have this product, it is called “hei ren ya gao “which literally means, “Black people tooth paste”. I found this about its genisis.
“Darkie (now known as Darlie) is a toothpaste brand of the Taiwan-based company Hawley & Hazel, which was acquired in 1985 by the [...]
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How do men and women differ in their preferences for Beijing restaurants? With the voting over and the winners announced in the Beijinger’s 7th Annual Reader Restaurant Awards, we decided to take a closer look at where men and women differ in their dining preferences.
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