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Since our live blogging of Obama's town hall meeting with Chinese students earlier today, a few interesting things have come to light.

• No worries about getting the runs while exploring the World Expo - Shanghai has been making extensive efforts to ensure that we are never far from a toilet. The city has installed toilets about every 200 meters for the estimated 400,000 daily visitors expected each day. In addition, sophisticated rubbish collection systems will help us to forget we're in a Chinese city. [Shanghai Daily]
• Looking for something culturally stimulating this week? The Tony award winning Soul of Shaolin tells the story of Hui Guang, a son and his mother. The show is a stunning display of Wushu Kung Fu that is sure to astound you. The performance starts this Thursday at the Shanghai Theatre Academy. [Smart Shanghai]
• China is planning on forming an organization of top universities called the C9 and Shanghai's very own Fudan University and Shanghai JiaoTong University will join with other prestigious schools across the nation in a Chinese "Ivy League". We wonder if they're copying this tradition for better education opportunities for their students or to increase elitism? [People's Daily]

Coming from a country where streaking is a time honored tradition, we rolled our eyes and laughed when we heard about the two young graduates from Fudan University who rubbed "I Love Fudan" on their naked bodies and ran through the campus. And then we promptly forgot about it.

       

Public parks, bath houses, news stands—these were some of the venues for gay people to meet in the old days of Shanghai. The second day of Shanghai Pride featured a panel discussion on gay spaces throughout Shanghai history, along with a brief primer on the creation and reception of China´s first university course on homosexuality at Shanghai's Fudan University. Around 150 people gathered at Kathleen's 5 to listen and learn.

...and we don't mean playing the role of a teacher in a film, we mean an actual teacher. No, really. Most of us know Jay Chou (周杰伦) – the mumbling Taiwanese R’n’B superstar – as that guy who stares blankly at us from Meters Bonwe adverts on the metro, but if you thought he was just another vacant celebrity then a reappraisal may be due, as Jay will soon take up the post of lecturer in our fair city.

If you’re like us and already feel slightly guilty at how much you will be drinking at this Friday’s Shanghaiist Happy Hour, maybe it’s time to start thinking about how to have an active summer? Whether you’re a cycling veteran or you’re just looking for something to do to these coming months, there are a number of bike trips available to see more of the beautiful countryside (or Suzhou Creek).

Today is World No Tobacco Day, and according to a joint study done by Shanghai city and Fudan University public health researchers found that 82.8% of Shanghai people in a survey said they supported the idea of smoking/non-smoking sections in restaurants, while around 70% of restaurant managers said they were hoping to either completely ban smoking or else try sections. However, in reality only 6.1% of restaurants have banned smoking, and only 24.2% of restaurants have non-smoking sections.

The hard working staff at Shanghaiist once again takes you to the front lines with a report of a UFO sighting over Hongkou and Yangpu districts on the night of April 12. According to the report (in Chinese), the UFO was seen by many residents, and pictures subsequently spread over the internet, starting (exclusively?) from the Fudan University BBS (they are in that area). The question remains as to why any advanced civilization would pimp their intergalactic ride in a way that suggests cheap Christmas lights hold some kind of supreme aesthetic value on their planet. Click on the above link for two more underwhelming pictures.

In a city not exactly synonymous with the word "culture," it's refreshing to find the ever-so-rare odd subculture existing, nay, possibly even thriving.

While we were "researching" information for this post, we came across an Answers.com entry about the Yangpu district which says that Wujiaochang was constructed in 1929, and the English name of it is "Pentagon Plaza." Maybe it's just because we're Americans, but we think that of all the English names we've heard for places, that's about the snazziest one. Well, not quite as snazzy as "Email Plaza" by Jing'an Park, but a close second.

... a month, which is what a survey shows is the average monthly income of Beijing university graduates (BA through PhD). There were 14,000 of them in the survey. Each year the number of university graduates hitting the job market increases, with next year's figures expected to top 200,000 for the first time ever. However the economy is only providing jobs for about 90 percent of them, meaning that 20,000 of the 2007 graduates are not going to find work.

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The band, scheduled to perform at 7:30 with an end time around 9:30, was bumped up to accommodate a double booking with a Chinese acrobat show intended to entertain "distinguished guests" both of the governmental, business and tourist variety, said the Yunfeng Theatre manager.

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At least they don't lag behind in anything important!

Yeah, we know -- unfair fight. Pop music versus (diluted agitprop) theater. But that's what this article is about:

Compiled by Peijin Chen and Dan Washburn

OK, you all know Shanghaiist is an animal lover, or at least you should, since we have written about it a lot. We're still pissed about the Fudan University cat torturer Zhang Liangliang and the fact that he got off so easily. But there isn’t much we can do since there is no animal protection law in China.

Now take a wild guess: Which occupation is the most dangerous in Shanghai? According to this report (in Chinese) by the Shanghai Evening Post, journalists, corporate managers and scientific researchers are the top ones in danger now.

Since Shanghai's first human bird flu death was confirmed on Saturday, the city has "stepped up measures" to prevent the spread of the disease among people (which still hasn't been proven possible):

Shanghaiist has a grisly story to tell you. Zhang Zhian, a PhD student at Fudan University, is running a devilish experiment (report in Chinese) on live human subjects. He's asked 24 students to spend a week during their winter vacations away from the internet and television. Thankfully, these hapless middle school students are not being subjected to simultaneous deprivation of both TV and the internet. It's just one or the other, unless, of course they are masochistic courageous enough for both. Thus, some of the kids have weaned themselves off the internet by watching TV and doing some homework instead. According to the report, some of the kids also tried playing football (or soccer, as it's normally called), but we don't buy that for an instant. Never trust the media here.

Shanghai shows love for it's male inhabitants

Shanghaiist is in a fury. No, not because of the freezing weather, but because of a recent thread in a pet website we frequent.

Fans of 1979's Shaolin Temple, despair. In the spirit of Sylvester Stallone’s switch from the Rambo franchise to trying his hand at comedy with Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot, Jet Li has decided to throw his last roundhouse kick to the head. In a recent discussion with students at Shanghai’s Fudan University, the actor suggested that his upcoming film Fearless, the story of martial arts pioneer Huo Yuanjia (to be released next year), would be his final film in the genre.

Shanghaiist was (un)fortunate enough last December to go to Shangcai prefecture out in Henan, which is where the famed "AIDS village" (艾滋病村）is located. We were shown around the hospitals and schools, always under the supervision of officials. Even though we never paid for the sumptuous meals downed with numerous bottles of beer and rice wine, and were often pestered at night by the hotel staff wanting to know if we needed a "massage", we were inclined to give the benefit of the doubt, at least in terms of moral character, to the officials -- they are skimming, no doubt, crooked, yes, but at least not to a degree that makes them utterly reprehensible, right? Wrong. Maybe -- check out this report (in Chinese) which investigates Shangcai, and tells stories of officials skimming money from overcharging for medicines, not delivering basic promises of patient care, skimming money from the salaries of doctors, and of course, not letting people with a penchant for speaking the truth mouthing off at inopportune moments out of their homes. They said that when one of the most corrupt officials quit his job, the local people set off firecrackers and that it was "more festive than Chinese New Year"!

We have no idea, but it's happening, according the subscription-only South China Morning Post (via the World Business Council for Sustainable Development):

With Harley's Bar accused of stealing equipment and Hong Doudou no longer interested in hosting live music, the Shanghai underground rock scene has moved from Xujiahui to Yangpu District. Last night's No Beijing concert marked the official opening of Live Bar, a medium-sized venue in a quiet neighborhood near Fudan University. More than a hundred people, mostly students, showed up -- which was surprising considering the lackluster turnout at previous events.

Looks like leftist/author/poltician/TV personality/wearer-of-sunglasses Li Ao spoke at Fudan University today after all, despite reports that his plans had changed. The controversial 70-year-old, an advocate of both free speech and the unification of Taiwan and China, is making his first trip to the Mainland since his family fled to Taiwan in 1949. Hi speeches last week at Beijing University and Tsinghua University created quite a stir and some confusion. According to the New York Times, "Li chided China's leaders for suppressing free speech, ridiculed the university administration's fear of academic debate and advised students on how to fight for freedom against official repression" at Beijing University, prompting authorities to impose a blackout on coverage of the rest of Li's China visit. But at Tsinghua, Li said China was in its "halcyon days" and he "lauded the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) several times, saying that while China was bullied by Western powers in its modern history." Li reportedly admitted that the government had "asked him to eliminate political content from his talk" at Fudan. Did he? Well, since Shanghaisit has never been too good at learning foreign languages, we don't know just yet. There appears to be video footage of the speech (in Chinese, of course) at the Phoenix TV website. (We're hoping ESWN will translate it soon -- he translates everything else.)

The city announced this week that it plans to protect the Shanghai dialect. The dialect skills of 7,000 Shanghai students will be surveyed and a “vocal bank” will be created by Fudan University in the attempts to freeze this unique apect of Shanghai culture, package it up like a box of moon cakes and present it to the world for the 2010 World Expo.