Brush up on your culture this week: Learn about the history of Hongkou district or Shanghai cabaret culture, catch a performance of Aida or King Lear, and drink and golf for charity- though not at the same time.
Monday: Zapata’s Anniversary
Zapata’s is turning six, somewhat of an achievement in this town, and to celebrate [...]
Photo by Gabyu
Phew! Today’s traffic was busy and bustling thanks to the Qingming Festival – that yearly holiday that the Chinese use to pay respects to the dead by sweeping tombs and burning offerings (sometimes, annoyingly, in your stairwells). Shanghai Daily predicted that there would be traffic jams and overcrowded buses. [...]
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Gothamist was aghast at the cruel April Fool’s Day joke where pranksters told New Yorkers that an In-N-Out Burger was coming.
Torontoist tooka brief tour of a 300-square-foot house. Yours for only $179,000.
Shanghaiist examined the problem with zoos in China–they’re underfunded, underregulated and some of them are selling off their [...]
So dooown the rabbit hole we go again! We´ve been waiting for months and here it finally comes, the Tim Burton – Johnny Depp – Helena Bonham Carter-fueled version of the classic tale Alice in Wonderland.
We know very well the magical story once told by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carroll) [...]
While it hasn’t been in the news recently, H1N1 hasn’t actually left the country. In fact, seven people died from swine flu in March, bringing the current death toll of the flu to 800. Also last month, 429 people were confirmed to be infected, 70 of whom were hospitalized. So yeah, hopefully you got inoculated [...]
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This has got to be my favorite souvenir from China… and my favorite stuffed animal ever. I love the Beijing Olympic mascots. While Olympic mascots are usually rather ugly, China put a lot of thought into designing theirs, and it shows.
Interesting fact, if you’re not going to visit the [...]
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I love reading what Thomas P.M. Barnett has to say about China because he is not a China insider nor a China expert. He’s a guy who really understands world politics and international relations and it is from that perspective that he looks at China.
He recently did [...]
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On Tuesday evening, April 6, I am going to be part of a stellar panel at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, discussing “Doing Business in China: For Better or Worse.” Click here for full information and to sign up.
The club describes the event as follows:
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We climbed this mountain which, according to someone who claimed to be an expert on these things, was an old volcano.
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Daily Sunshine, April 5, 2010
Today’s newspapers trumpeted the amazing news that nine survivors of a mining disaster had been rescued after being trapped underground for more than a week.
Like many papers, the Daily Sunshine called the news a “miracle” (奇迹) in its front-page headline:
A Miracle!Shanxi mine disaster rescue effort: [...]