Archive for December 2007

Sonic Youth in China video

Dec 30th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
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Didn’t notice this before, but ..aha… here it is .. the video of Sonic Youth in China. Its one of those flash sites – so you have to click on ‘sonic youth,’ inbetween McDs and such other corporate stuff. Er, “Shangh...


Pierre Huber and Zhou Tiehai quit SH contemporary?

Dec 30th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Pierre Huber and Zhou Tiehai quit SH contemporary?

According to this site here the two ‘founding fathers’ of this just past SH Contemporary Art Fair, which was actually quite good, have quit. Well, that’s Shanghai for you.

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Books about Shanghai

Dec 28th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...

Shanghai Eye came across this exhaustive list of books written about Shanghai. It contains memorable titles like the following: Hell over Shanghai. Eye Witness’ Reports. London: Modern Books 1932. Four Month of War. …. Foreign Devils Had L...


Shanghai World Expo exposes new mascot, looks like a Pekinese, controversy

Dec 27th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Shanghai World Expo exposes new mascot, looks like a Pekinese, controversy

It seems Shanghai has a new world expo mascot. What is that you  might ask? Shanghai Eye was at the ‘seminar on world expo mascot’ – attended by various luminaries, including  Alan Chan and Mi Qiu. How did this piece of ______ come...


3rd place magazine does a Shanghai Eye special…

Dec 27th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Paintblog, Random Shanghai stuff...
3rd place magazine does a Shanghai Eye special…

3rd Place magazine, a Chinese language magazine it seems that is owned by Starbucks China, and distributed throughout their stores, has done a feature on your very own Shanghai Eye. To be honest your correspondent hadn’t heard of this magazine b...


Shanghai art maven in NYT

Dec 27th, 2007 | By Chris | Category: News and events, Random Shanghai stuff...
Shanghai art maven in NYT

Pearl Lam has had a write up in the New York Times: “It’s quite bonkers,” Pearl Lam said of her 22nd-floor, 9,700-square-foot loft in the French Concession district here. The apartment, a mix of ancient Chinese artifacts and Western and Chinese ...


Spongebob squarepants video

Dec 23rd, 2007 | By Chris | Category: Random Shanghai stuff...

Came across this video, a spoof of Spongebob Squarepants if he was Chinese, its a kinda funny. The link is here.

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