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Shanghai (CNN) — The only souvenir that Xie Jinghua has from her stay at a Holiday Inn Express located in a vast tourism park alongside the East China Sea is a room key. (more…)

Just down the street from Fudan University, one of the top colleges in China, and across from a massive shopping complex that has a Wal Mart, a couple of Starbucks and KFCs, H&M, Sephora and Zara, among other Western brands, lives Feng Zhenghu who for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is barred from leaving his home. (more…)

Shanghai, China (CNN) — Since the high-profile escape of a blind Chinese activist in April, life has become worse for Feng Zhenghu, a dissident who lives in an apartment on the outskirts of this Chinese metropolis.

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watch it on youtube.

allegedly @pearlher He Peirong helped him, and she was arrest in Nanjing today.

Walk into Southern Belle on a Wednesday night and you’ll probably see 28-year-old Tom Pang sitting alone on the terrace smoking. He doesn’t have a band, there’s no upright bass or banjo in his set, but Pang strums Shanghai’s best bluegrass. (more…)

One man’s barbershop trimmings are another man’s industrial protein. And it’s 31-year-old Jiangsu native Wang Wei’s job to get the hair off the floor and to the factory. (more…)

Just a small clip of how to be Ai weiwei’s creditor. (more…)

The friend who invited me to Huaxi’s 50th anniversary first advertised the weekend as some kind of helicopter festival: “Hey free helicopter rides, wanna go?” First instinct: No thanks, don’t want to die in China. But then he told me it was Huaxi, now internationally renowned as “China’s Richest Village” and home to one of the tallest buildings in the country, a state-of-the-art medical hospital, a fake Great Wall, and 2,000 super wealthy villagers all living in huge houses with luxury cars. (more…)

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Chengdu, March, 2011. When I first meet Gan I was resting in front of a bank outside the Wuhouci with a friend as I chain smoked in the fresh Chengdu air. (more…)

Preface: This post is one of the three articles [I hope it can all be done] that talk about Shanghai’s homeless cats. The topic was inspired by my lovely cat, and by a documentary made by Ai weiwei called San Hua, which is about the cat business chain in China. It talks about the homeless cats of Shanghai and the cat trappers who try to catch and ship them to Guangzhou, where a massive cat meat industry sells them to restaurants. (more…)

Will that hurt because of clapping the whole night? I kinda felt bad for their palms…

It really is! I hope one day the rabbits can be the one in the video. They really learned the spirit of South Park. The domestic video sites deleted all the copies of this video.
PS: How many sequences can you recognize? (more…)

If you look at Zhao from a western angle, he is just another street drawer. But he doesn’t think so. According to his Buddhist beliefs, he is a Buddha in the last life that has been sent here to save people out of the endless cycle of Samsara. (more…)