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...equivalents - are soaring. IPOs are hot (Baidu.com, a.k.a. the Google of China, debuted on the Nasdaq recently and quadrupled in price on its first day of trading). And so important is China to e-commerce giant eBay that CEO Meg Whitman has been camped out in sweltering Shanghai for most of the summer, making sure eBay gets its China strategy right...
...favorites: SHANGHAIDIARIES.COM This stylish blog is the work of American journalist Dan Washburn, who moved to China in 2002. Alongside Shanghai restaurant reviews and city listings, you'll find hundreds of articles, pictures and short videos. And if that isn't enough coverage of China's most dynamic city, Washburn also edits online city guide shanghaiist.com...
...topic. So whether you're after the best burger in Brooklyn or the hottest hotel in Berlin, simply log on. There's a blogger waiting to help. Our favorites: SHANGHAIDIARIES.COM This stylish blog is the work of American journalist Dan Washburn, who moved to China in 2002. Alongside Shanghai restaurant reviews and city listings, you'll find hundreds of articles, pictures and short videos. And if that isn't enough coverage of China's most dynamic city, Washburn also edits online city guide shanghaiist.com. NOTESFROMTHEROAD.COM Erik Gauger's sumptuous site contains gorgeous photographs from his trips around the globe...
Cassius is a Miniature Schnauzer with oversized ears, who joined my household courtesy of the Naughty Pets store in Shanghai. The idea of keeping pets - naughty or otherwise - had long been taboo in the People's Republic of China. During the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, Chairman Mao's Red Guards killed pet dogs by the tens of thousands, seeing them as symbols of the pampered bourgeoisie his Communist regime was out to eradicate. Even dogs being bred for their meat in southern China were exterminated, and gourmets dissuaded from tasting the rich flesh lest they become infected by class depravity...
...Shanghai fever is especially acute in the trendy area of Xintiandi, where the elegant Lakeville apartments are probably China's most coveted properties. The next batch of Lakeville units isn't expected to be finished until mid-2006, but thus far well over 1,000 people have registered to be notified as soon as they go on sale. Shu Yin Lee, who runs a property syndicate that made millions of dollars by buying five Lakeville penthouses while they were under construction, says he gets calls every day from agents with clients eager to buy. But even after doubling his money...