Steel is still in short supply in Shanghai. Manhole covers disappear, phone booths, traffic lights and now steel bean art.

Did the metal scrap dealer think one steel bean less doesn’t make much of difference for the real art lover? Did someone just not appreaciate the art?
There are 2 beans left for at least […]

I stumbled on Yahoo Answers (a service where visitors can ask questions and others provide the answers) a week ago and searched for questions on China.

It’s a small zeitgeist
There are business questions:
E.g. How can I find cheap products or I need an agent for x?
There are practical questions:
E.g. Where can I find sheet music […]

How to write an article about an professor with a very Chinese name, Yang Jie, of the “famous” Shanghai university Tongji who apparently faked his credentials.
Make a headline focusing on “Bogus Overseas”

Not that is mentioned how “overseas” the professor is.
Source: The only source you know you can trust.
(note: this link has a short […]

I have watched way to many football games until now. Resulting in too little sleep.
Some observations:
6 hours time difference is too much. Either change Beijing Standard Time for a month or reschedule the games
In a country where social stability is everyday’s slogan, make sure university students have electricity 24/7. They want to watch […]

It’s almost 2 years now that I live in Shanghai.

In those almost 2 years I have been mildy frustrated with service, bemused over the way traffic behaves and amused about the image Shanghai tries to display to the outside world regarding laundry hanging outside. I have been a lot more probably but I don’t […]

Pandas, China’s cuddly creatures, can be seen online these days.

It takes some planning as only between 11:00 and 11:20 China Time you have a chance to see Rong Rong, No. 20’s Son, Lei Lei’s Daughter, Ya Ao, Younger son of Hua Mei and Elder son of Hua Mei on the Panda Cam.
Why most of […]

After a month in Holland it’s good to be back in the dirty heat of Shanghai.
Being a China News addict I wasn’t let down. Dutch Media love items about China, from little funny tidbits about how the film MI 3 may not be released in China because there is too much laundry hanging in […]