Category Archives: Shanghai

Aftermath of the Shanghai fire: poor govt. supervision and dodgy sub contracting

The aftermath of the deadly Shanghai blaze that killed 79 people earlier this week.

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Deadly Shanghai fire in highrise building

A fire has ripped through a high-rise building in central Shanghai leaving at least eight people dead and more than 90 injured according to official sources.

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Haibao’s buttcrack

Does he have a butt? Does he have a buttcrack? Bad boy author and racing car driver Han Han recently posted a Q&A with himself to blog, about the Shanghai expo. Here is the first part of it, translated by … Continue reading

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Old and new: the Bund reopens in Shanghai

East and west on today’s front pages.

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Shanghai Expo: A significant event or cash up in smoke?

Shanghai Expo 2010 a.k.a. The World’s Fair: a significant event or just a big waste of cash

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Shanghai in miniature

A tilt-short video of Shanghai by Joe Nafis, showing the city looking like a miniature scale model.

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Shanghai 1947 silent news reel

Video found via Quirky Beijing, who notes ‘a silent film with beautiful shots and one memorable inter-title breathlessly exclaiming, “In 10 years its population doubles to a seething 7 million!”‘

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Science fiction fantasies of Shanghai

Part two of historian Jeffrey Wasserstrom’s essay A Brief History of Shanghai’s Future: Sci-Fi Fantasies from Late Qing Times to the Diamond Age.

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A brief history of Shanghai’s future

An essay by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of Global Shanghai, 1850-2010.

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Shanghai skyscraper on fire

The Shanghai World Financial Center is a super skyscraper under construction that will top out at 445 meters tall or more and may become the tallest building in the world. There were fires on high and low stories of the … Continue reading

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