Chinalyst is a China Blog Community website and I just posted an interview with Fili, the owner of the website talking about his fascination with China and more specifically about Chinalyst.

More than 2.500.000 commuters take the Shanghai subway daily.
I take it occasionally and when I do, only when I’m a first arrival at the escalator I put my feet on it. If the sqeezing and pushing has started I take the stairs. The Shanghai subway operators feel they should improve the etiquette on […]

In our search for an apartment we have seen about the whole centre of Shanghai. Most of them huge buildings. Close by transport, especially the subway, is one of the key factors in deciding where we want to live next left. Many new developments mention that ’soon’ a subway line nearby will be ready. […]

Changing Behavior in Shanghai
It is raining day today and it was also raining a couple of nights before, when I went out to get some cigarettes at the Kedi supermarket on the corner.
Armed with my umbrella I saw another foreigner approaching me, and we friendly nodded to each other. Passing each other our […]

One of my pet projects is MyChinaStart. A China Directory chuck full of China related websites.
I have started an interview series with the people/companies behind the websites in and related to China.
The first interview is with Daniel Borin, one of the partners of EnjoyChina, the company behind the Enjoycard and the Enjoyclassifieds magazine.
Check […]

There we were, waiting to do some banking business. Due to the Bank of China policy of too few available employees on their busiest day of the week, being Saturday (the guard told us this fact, the busy part to be specific), we spent many minutes staring at other people getting money from the […]

A guest post by my good friend Hide who went through some ordeals getting his deposit back. It includes some useful tips on how to secure your deposit before you leave your Shanghai apartment.
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Author Hide
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Are you going to stay in Shanghai city?
If so, you should watch out for a “disease” rampant in the area.
Nowadays […]