The soon-to-be-released blockbuster sequel of a sequel Iron Man 3 will be heavily modified for Chinese audiences when it opens in China on May 3rd, revealed an article in The Hollywood Reporter. Specifically scenes featuring the character Dr. Wu and his assistant (played by Chinese stars Wang Xueqi and Fan Bingbing respectively) have been heavily …Read More
Laowai favourite, the Onion-esque China Daily Show has made the big time with a profile in the New York Times/International Herald Tribune, along with an interview with the site’s illusive creator, “Mr. R”. Traditionally, authoritarian states resent satire – laughter is powerfully subversive – and China is no exception, carefully controlling critical chuckles in the media …Read More
The story of Neil Robinson is spreading through the China blogsphere like wildfire after first appearing as a comment on the China subreddit by a user who stated they’ve known and worked with him for several years at Beijing World Youth Academy, an international school in Beijing. Robinson is wanted in the UK “in connection …Read More
Stephen A. Schwarzman, the founder of private equity firm Blackstone Group, has established a new scholarship at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. The program will be endowed with $300 million USD — $100 million coming directly from Schwarzman, and the rest from donors. Dubbed the Schwarzman Scholars program, it is being touted as a rival in both …Read More
Just after 8am CST, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Lushun County, Sichuan, near the city of Ya’an. State media has reported that 56 people are confirmed to have been killed by the quake, with hundreds more injured.Read More
The following is a plea for help/donations from Christopher Barden, the founder of the Little Adoption Shop, an organization in Beijing that helps rescued dogs find homes. They’re in desperate need of some funding. The Little Adoption Shop currently has 125 dogs in our care, and we are constantly under pressure to meet our growing …Read More
While not going so far as to say that travellers should avoid travelling to China, the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is offering up some decent advice to anyone who is travelling or living in China. Most of the below is common knowledge, but it’s worth a read all the same.Read More
Home & garden Television (HGTV) is hunting for some Shanghai-based American expats to feature on a new international series profiling what it’s like to live abroad. HGTV Producers want to hear from fun, outgoing, enthusiastic Americans Expats who are living in Shanghai RIGHT NOW! In each episode, our host will experience Shanghai through the eyes …Read More
If you’re heading to the Shanghai Expo and don’t feel like spending your day under the sun in line for one of the biggie pavilions; head over to the (surely cool) Iceland Pavilion, where you can rub elbows with Miss World 2005 Unnur Birna Vilhjálmsdóttir. According to the Iceland Expo site, Unnur is heading up …Read More
Yesterday Elaine at the Shanghaiist reported a number of sites were miraculously unblocked — Vimeo, Hootsuite, VOA News. Checking now and it appears Hootsuite has re-fallen to the mighty River Crab, but Vimeo is still powering along … for now. Twitter, Youtube and Facebook are all still unaccessible.Read More
eChinaCities has a good rundown of what we can expect from tomorrow’s massive 60th anniversary celebration marking the founding of the People’s Republic of China. It can be watched online in English via CCTV9 starting first thing in the morning. Like most China-centric sites, you may have troubles loading the players in anything other than …Read More
As someone who has just shown up in Japan by way of China, this China via Japan series over on Going Loco in Yokohama is pretty fascinating to me. China via Japan Pt 1 China via Japan Pt 2 China via Japan Pt 3 It looks like there might be more installments of this series …Read More
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