David Ever on CCTV underpants and hemorrhoids in the Shanghai press

banyue on Linda Jaivin on Sexy Beijing

David D on Subway trains to shelter Sichuan homeless

sk on Dream of Red Mansion on Popup Chinese

bocaj on A spy on the cover of the Global Times

Craig on Dentist arrested as government cracks down on medical quacks

xiaowang on Blogger Conference interviews: Ping Ke

wow on 1964 U.S. anti-China propaganda

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.

+ How much money does a Beijing lawyer make? (2005.06): Today's edition of the Legal Mirror (法制晚报) featured a new financial column called 'Checking Your Pockets' (钱包大兜底). The aim of the column is to inform the readers about how much money people in selected industries make in Beijing. To pay respect to its name, Legal Mirror kicked off with lawyers. Here are the results of the report:

+ Paper tigers, whispering sweet nothings into each other's ears (2008.02): An article originally published in 1999 by Geremie Barmé about newspapers in China and how they have changed since the Cultural Revolution.

+ SARFT uncovers a poisoned apple (2007.03): Chang Ping (长平) on SARFT's criticism of Lost in Beijing (苹果 aka Apple), Still Life (三峡好人), and Thirteen Princess Trees (十三棵泡桐).

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