Tag Archives: Shanghai

Pandemonium on China’s stock market

There’s pandemonium on China’s newspaper front pages today: the stock market is falling even faster than the sliding temperatures. So there’s graphics of bears and plunging arrows galore. The Southern Metropolis Daily (南方都市报) from Guangdong chose today to dispense with any graphics … Continue reading

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‘Uncivilized tourists’ vandalize flowers at Sunflower Festival

Yesterday was the last day of the first ever Sunflower Festival, which attracted 200,000 visitors over 18 days to Pujiang (浦江) in Zhejiang province to appreciate these beautiful flowers. But as the front page of the Youth Daily from Shanghai laments today, when all the … Continue reading

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What do people buy from corner stores in China?

I spent China’s October holiday traveling across the country on a work trip. In each city I visited, I went to a small corner store (known in China as xiaomaibu 小卖部). Such stores sell a range of goods similar to convenience stores, but usually … Continue reading

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Shanghai girls

Sexy Beijing‘s new episode about a new book on Shanghainese women, featuring an interview with the author Mina Hanbury-Tenison and street interviews with Beijingers on the subject.

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Shanghai citizens declare a day of mourning

Coverage of public mourning for the victims of the 2010.11.15 Jing’an apartment fire in Shanghai.

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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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Ai Weiwei’s river crab banquet

Artist and activist Ai Weiwei is put under house arrest in Beijing, but but his river crab party in Shanghai goes on without him.

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The people want positive news

A Beijinger writes to the Shanghai Party Committee to recommend that the local news be more positive.

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Beijing is China’s wealthiest town, according to Hurun

Beijing ranks on top of the list of mainland China’s provincial-level municipalities for having the highest number of the country’s richest people

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