Michael Sutich

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• Posted Around Shanghai: Asia Uncut, pricey road signs, woks, and Chanel to Shanghaiist
  Asia Uncut is coming to Shanghai to film its second season. The English-language talk show has featured A-list talent from Asia and abroad. To promote its new season the show is offering free drinks, tickets, and transportation. Free stuff and a chance to see celebrities? Sounds good to us! [Urbanatomy]
• Posted More tech companies supporting the GFW to Shanghaiist
  Google and Yahoo have long been lambasted for the censorship policies they employ in China to appease the CCP, particularly when Yahoo handed over email information to party officials in order to convict a Chinese journalist. Now critics have shifted their attention to Microsoft's Bing search engine. The site has been accused of sanitizing results - any searches in simplified Chinese are censored, not only in China but in the rest of the world...
• Posted Around Shanghai: Pollution art, Turkey Day, and Bar Rouge blows out candles to Shanghaiist
  A few weeks ago the metro stop at People's Square was turned from a bastion of commercialism into a moving display of environmental art. Check out the large installation, which featured work designed for the China Environmental Protection Foundation, and wish it was there instead of Haibao looming at you. [China Environmental Blog]
• Posted Around Shanghai: Food safety, taxi etiquette and Han Han's Solo to Shanghaiist
  Another case of technology for perhaps technology's sake? Expo officials announced that all food entering the 2010 Expo grounds will monitored with Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags to ensure the quality and safety of the food. [Shanghai Daily]
• Posted Extra! Extra! Rare fungus collections, Sino-US relations and Hawaii now saying "Ni hao!" to Shanghaiist
  After more than 70 years a large rare fungus collection has been returned to China from Cornell University. Curator Shu Chun Teng smuggled the collection out of the country at the start of World War II just as the Japanese were invading to keep it safe. He later suffered during the Cultural Revolution for "selling China's history." [New York Times]