Hui on Netease has a thing for oysters

Respect on RMB 3 million foreign douche bag in Shanghai

Tina Marsh on Who cares about maps?

Hui on International marriage broker sent to prison

Joel Marti on Yellow fever

Thomas Cra on What Robert Scoble learned in China

bocaj on CCTV rakes in big ad money

Thomas Cra on Con artist engineers demolition of government offices

To die poor is a sin: An excerpt of Factory Girls by Leslie T. Chang.

In Wang Shuo's No Man's Land: Geremie Barme addresses Wang Shuo's 千万别把我当人.

Swimming with Mao, a memoir essay: This memoir piece is by Xujun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming'.

+ Asimov Published, Interviewed in Beijing (2005.03): Cover story from this week's Book Review section of The Beijing News announces the publication of a Chinese translation of Isaac Asimov's complete Foundation series. Yup, the Beijing News has scored a fictional interview with "I, Asimov". They've been taking similar liberties recently in their entertainment sections, captioning photographs of celebrities with made-up quotes.

+ Clueless academic takes on popular fantasy novels (2006.06): Culture Wars: author Xiao Ding (萧鼎) takes on stuffed shirt Tao Dongfeng (陶东风) over fantasy literature.

+ Chinese reggae pioneers (2004.03): Maybe Chinese doctors started using some of the local herbs in their remedies because something different happened in Jamaica: Kingston's Chinese population was involved from the earliest days with the down and dirty ghetto music that became reggae.

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