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Here is an extensive list of recent academic writings on China. It is all available online, but if the links don’t work in China you probably know what to do.

Xinhua, Shanghai Eye’s favourite state owned news agency beginning with the letter ‘X’ reports the winner of the new face of China Contest here. Thankfully no photos of the blokes in speedos, though probably not all Shanghai Eye read...

Some latest pics of Shanghai Eye’s studio

Here’s a new addition to the Shanghai Eye paintings in peoples’ homes series: This painting from 2006 or so is called ‘flag of Shanghai’

Yes, we’ve entered the realm of the otherworldly. There seem very few versions left online- but anyhow- a UFO zoomed by Guangdong Province (presumably on its way to Shanghai). It was spotted by a bunch of students, at 8ish in the morning, on Jul...

(In the UK) Story here. For some reason the fools still kept claiming the dole. And obviously showing up in a porsche to claim your unemployment benefit not too clever. The trio raked in GBP7million from an “industrial scale” business whic...

Shanghai Eye is just back from Singapore, which, it turns out, has its own censorship issues. Carrying on, here are a few art related stories that have surfaced recently: WSJ looks at Internet artists. Among the artists who first saw the potential for...

Was asked to publish this presser…the last Dali show in Shanghai Art Museum was 2003. Salvador Dalí in Shanghai SALVADOR DALI, bronze sculpture,Space Elephant, © I.A.R. The STRATTON FOUNDATION and THE DALÍ UNIVERSE in partnership with Uwantar...

The Beijingger reports here on the closure of Chinese Contemporary: News of yet another casualty of the financial crisis and 798’s soaring rents. Chinese Contemporary, one of Dashanzi’s landmark galleries, has closed its doors. In its heyday Chine...

Press release: What Is Contemporary Art? A Lecture Series at ShContemporary09 Organized by Anton Vidokle September 10-13, 2009 1000 Yan’an Zhong Lu, Jing An (near Tongren Lu) 延安中路1000号 近铜仁路 Often there is some hesitation in dev...