Some even waited overnight for the China launch of the iPad, once again making me question what the hell is wrong with Macnerds. Even more weird, one of them ACTUALLY HAD AN iPAD ALREADY.
Shanghai Daily interviewed Ma:
Ma Ya, a 40-year-old businessman, was among the super Apple fans who arrived at the Apple Store in [...]
Ever since the Expo Village, a companion dormitory/apartments area to the World Expo site, was built and put into operation, people have been complaining that the area is “nice” but suffers from a major flaw. No matter what the hour, the place is consistently… well, empty. Curiousity piqued, I finally got a chance to visit [...]
Fang Shimin (R) and Fang Xuanchang (L), China’s fraud exposers. Both pictures from China Digital Times.
The New Humanist has a fascinating article on two Chinese mythbusters everyone should know – Caijing Magazine’s science editor Fang Xuanchang and biochemist-turned-fraud-exposer Fang Shimin. Both are in a fight against psuedoscience and fake resumes, and [...]
When drafting our Weekendist for this week, we ended up taking off an event that sounded awesome, but had run into some trouble with the authorities: Bubba’s Fifth Annual Chili Cook-off. Apparently police, worried about public gatherings during the Expo had warned against the big event and Bubba’s said they had agreed to postpone [...]
Once again it’s Friday and the end of the working week is nigh! If you embraced last weekend and followed our Weekendist guide, you would have been run ragged – get ready to do it again, because boy is Shanghai delivering! This weekend is serving up a rather eclectic mix of entertainment; [...]
Maybe I haven’t been paying enough attention to what will happen after Expo – apparently, some of these pavilions will be taken apart and rebuilt elsewhere and people are now bidding on the chance to own them. Most recently sold: the Taiwan Pavilion for 97.2 million RMB ($14.45 million USD) to Hsinchu City in Taichung [...]
In Northern China’s Jilin City lives a man whose nose is as big as an adult fist. 42-year-old Fei Jianjun suffers from rhino carcinoma, a severe form of nose cancer, and his face has been so altered that some of the crueler villagers have nicknamed him the “Hippo Man.”
His condition began last year in September, [...]
Taking a gander at the various viewpoints on China’s recent large-scale campaigns, Jeffrey Wasserstrom finds similar threads through the old New Life Movement of Chiang Kai-shek and the cleanliness and courtesy drives of Lee Kuan Yew’s Singapore. Interestingly enough, the “One World, One Dream” and “Better City, Better Life” pushes echo those leaders much more [...]
Photo of you tiao on Life on Nanchang Lu
In our ongoing Threesday feature, Shanghaiist takes the time to count out three of….well, whatever catches our fancy that week. This week it’s Shanghai’s food blogs.
Since Chris St. Cavish exited from SmartShanghai, we’ve been a little starved for food gossip. So for this [...]