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Denmark’s Mais Uma have been performing some shows at Shanghai’s JZ Club (46 Fuxing Xi Lu) since April 13th, which ends tomorrow night (April 29th). The video above shows Mais Uma at JZ last night performing Tao Feliz (So Happy). The song is taken from their excellent album ‘Caminho Do Norte’.
We have not been [...]

Huai Hai Lu’s Cybermart is moving from the junction of Huangpi Nan Lu to the corner of Xizang Lu, which is only a five minute walk away.
I saw the new site today, which looks cleaner and less cluttered than its predecessor. If you have been to the new electronics malls in Pudong’s Zhanyang Lu then [...]

Shanghai is renowned for its jazz scene in clubs like Cottons, JZ and elegant hotel foyers.
Jazz can be amazing when masters like John Coltrane take you on a journey to new places of creativity and emotion, but much of the jazz songs you hear in this city are standards designed to keep the bosses [...]

Chinese people in general and Shanghainese in particular are great lovers of public space. As soon as winter gives way to warmer days in Spring, you will see locals gather in parks to exercise, play Mah Jong, exercise, walk backwards and hang out their caged birds.
Foreigners will always find this spectacle bizarre and fascinating, whereas [...]

John C Dvorak’s recent ranting and raving about China is highly entertaining, but his analysis has more holes in it than a lump of Swiss cheese.

To those who are unfamiliar, John C Dvorak is a well known tech writer, blogger (http://www.dvorak.org/blog), podcaster and curmudgeon who hosts Cranky Geeks and NoAgenda. No Agenda is an hour [...]

Yesterday I had a great chat with a friend about the Tibet issue. She is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.
She explained the Chinese point of view, but it sounded much more reasonable than the propaganda I see on CCTV 9, which makes me switch off. It was not the content of [...]

Brits living in China should always keep their passports on them.
This is the advice given to Brits by their embassy in response to spot checks carried out by police after a raid on Sanlitun in Beijing. I received this E-mail yesterday.
Sanlitun round-up
The diplomatic community has been picking up rumours recently that the regulation requiring all [...]

How many business cards have you collected since you came to Shanghai?
My wallet should be bulging with cash. Instead it is full of rubbish and business cards or mingpians as they are called in China. Every shop, restaurant and individual will present you with their name card in an elaborate two handed exchange ritual copied [...]

The staff at Xintiandi’s Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf do not know the difference between chicken, turkey and ham.
We went to CBTL for dinner last night. Jenny ordered the chicken and mushroom fusilli dish, but they had great trouble giving her what she ordered.
First, they gave her pasta with mushrooms, but no chicken. We sent [...]

I did this once in December 2004, and I thought I had trained myself never to walk away without my card. Last night everything went wrong. I realised my card was missing when I tried to pay for a new camera earlier today.
How do I dig myself out of this mess?

Get my passport and red [...]