Anon on RMB 3 million foreign douche bag in Shanghai

Cass on Cultural understanding in Washington, DC

Micah Sitt on Boom and bust for "hope schools"

NWO? on CCTV underpants and hemorrhoids in the Shanghai press

Elyse Ribb on The highest-paid authors in China

bert on 1964 U.S. anti-China propaganda

nancy on Lesbians face blood donation discrimination

David D on A condom pledge for World AIDS Day

A brief history of Shanghai's future: An essay by Jeffrey Wasserstrom, author of Global Shanghai, 1850-2010.

Carl Crow's 400 Million Customers: An excerpt from Carl Crow's classic 400 Million Customers and an introduction by Paul French.

Tom Carter: Portrait of a People: Tom Carter is a photographer who spent two years backpacking around China, taking photographs of people in every province. The result is a book called China: Portrait of a People, recently published by Blacksmith Books.

+ Gnawing at language, biting the ankles of Chinese media (2006.05): A look at the Chinese magazine 'Correct Language' (咬文嚼字 - 'Yaowen Jiaozi') and language pedantry.

+ People: Nicholas Bonner and his North Korean films (2005.03): Nick Bonner is one of Beijing's most eccentric residents, in all the right ways. He is a painter, cartoonist, landscape artist and filmmaker who has been living in the capital for more than fifteen years.

+ Ben Marcom Wednesday: Grannie Wang and the IT industry (2004.06): There's a Chinese saying 'Grannie Wang boasts about her melons in order to sell them' (王婆买瓜，自卖自夸). In other words, she blows her own trumpet, so you can't really believe her when she says the melons are tasty. So what does Grannie Wang do? Well, she can hire a 'tuor' ( 托儿) and a 'muliao' (幕僚). A tuor is a kind of tout employed to say good things about a company or product to entice customers; muliao is an old Chinese word meaning an advisor to a high official or general.

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