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October 5, 2004
I'm without a computer in Shanghai. I just got back from a trip to 横沙岛, a small island just north of Shanghai. I had this great encounter with the very friendly local 派出所 staff over not bringing my passport, an encounter which involved smoking my first cigarette (to placate the station chief), playing table-tennis with a former aspirant to the Chinese national badminton team in their third floor gym, then being driven to the 渡家村 resort in a police pick-up at ten at night. I also had dinner with a local family whose daughter was home on vacation from her college in the southern section of Shanghai, some college with the word 干部 ("cadre") in the name. They were very generous with sugar cane, beer and these little blue crabs; the mother: "they're hard to eat," and the daughter: "I don't like them that much."
Nevertheless, the point of the post is to point out that Ziboy has posted a bunch of mosh-pit photos (he's done mosh-pits before, I think it's a theme), which I'm guessing are from the Beijing Midi Music Festival, that Kaiser played at.
And, that's OK Tennessee, the post was as good as pictures.
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October 25, 2004
EastSouthNorthWest has transcribed a list of Modern Chinese History in Words, which reminds me of my own Modern Chinese Political Phrases & Slogans page. I've been meaning to expand it for a while now, just haven't given it priority.
Also, a post on the China Digital News weblog today has excerpts from a New York Times article on bootlegging of the Clinton book in China. I've asked for prices on this book three times because it is one of the rare translations that is available from pirate booksellers in both English and Chinese versions. The prices I was offered were RMB 40 (武宁新村 area), 60 (down the street from my house, on 曹杨 Road) and 150 (in 五角场 with Asa).
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October 27, 2004
Oh my gosh, amazing Chinese food weblog post! Note the bottle of orange juice on the table in the last picture. Out of all the awful, less than 10% juice orange flavored drinks on the Chinese market, this Minute Maid offering takes the cake for containing actual orange pulp. I drink way too much of that stuff.
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October 29, 2004
I liked reading the comments on today's today's Slashdot article on Wikis; although most of them were negative, it showed that people are seriously evaluating wikis for both personal and commercial use. So I think it's a fortuitous time to point out Wang Jianshuo's newly re-opened My City, My Bus Stop wiki. The idea is to have a wiki page for every bus stop in Shanghai, and then for people to annotate the wiki page with photos and text descriptions of the respective stop. There's some pretty neat code working in the background that works to keep individual stop pages up-to-date as the line description pages change; if you update a line and create a new stop page, you'll see it in action. I've done a couple of stop so far, namely 白玉路 and 新申花城茉莉苑; check out the RecentChanges page for the latest contributions.
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