Archive for January 2007

online Chinese art magazine

Jan 31st, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Paintblog, Random Shanghai stuff...
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online Chinese art magazine

Just noticed this online Chinese art magazine, Artzine China. Its a bit cranky to navigate, but is bilingual. apparently coming out of shanghai, Has six issues to date, nothing so far this year.

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Interview with Qu Fengguo

Jan 30th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Paintblog, Random Shanghai stuff...
Interview with Qu Fengguo

“There is no way to control time, it is like someone who has good relationships, but no way to express them,” said Qu Fengguo at the sidelines of his current show ‘Four Seasons.’ Qu is a graduate of Shanghai Theatre Schools art...


Shark eats man story

Jan 24th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Shark eats man story

There is an excellent round up of the man eaten by shark, hits shark and escapes story here. Other Shanghai Eye man and shark news here.

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Shanghai Youth and Robots

Jan 24th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Shanghai Youth and Robots

You can read an online PDF version of the Shanghai Youth edition or RARE here. In other news AFP reports “ A Japanese toymaker, under pressure from video games and a falling birthrate, on Tuesday unveiled a hand-sized humanoid robot aimed at adu...


Subject: Jonathan Napack Art Expert and Critic Dies At 39

Jan 24th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Subject: Jonathan Napack Art Expert and Critic Dies At 39

  Via sfcc mailing list. Jonathan Alan Napack, an expert in Asian contemporary art, died of pneumonia on Jan. 20 at the age of 39 at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Hong Kong.   Over the past decade, Mr. Napack worked as a writer and critic. He develope...


Zapatas

Jan 23rd, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Zapatas

This sign appears outside Zapatas, a Mexican style bar in Shanghai. It is ‘infamous’ for its ladies night.

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News roundup

Jan 23rd, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
News roundup

The US has put Japanese war crimes online, giving researchers much greater access.Not sure how  beneficial this move will be for Sino-Japanese relations.  A lot of the  records deal with allied POWs. In other news, Shanghai police are cracking down...


The connection was reset

Jan 20th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...

Google News is down suddenly. You get a tantalising glimpse for around two seconds. Top stories are all about the Chinese ‘sat killer.’

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The logic of totalitarianism

Jan 19th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...

Recently a new Internet witch hunt has been underway, to rid the Forbidden City in Beijing of its Starbucks. Not that the Shanghai Eye particularly cares for Starbucks. But in an interesting twist the China Daily, the government’s English langua...


Doomsday clock moves two minutes closer to midnight

Jan 18th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...

uh oh

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