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Sarah Zhang, Producer at House Films talks about the opportunities her company has had in making an impact on the film and media scene in China and discusses the success of Quest USA, the first Chinese reality TV show filmed in the US.

990AM in Shanghai broadcast where someone criticized Shanghainese people for speaking their native Shanghai dialect in public areas to show their superiority.

Shanghaiist reports Elton John and Tim Rice's stylistically eclectic rock musical AIDA opened in Shanghai to a full house at the Majestic Theater last Saturday. The show runs till Oct 12 in Shanghai, after which it moves on to Suzhou, Nanjing, Changsha, Wuhan, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Xi'an, Beijing, Chengdu and Tianjin.

Violinist Alec Hou was concertmaster for the Shanghai Conservatory when Mao's Cultural Revolution ended his classical musical career. Imprisoned and forced into labour camps, he fled to Canada. Now, more than 25 years later, he's returning to Shanghai, to face the demons of his past in China, but also to perform the music he loves.

Shanghai Fox is back on the air as of this Friday. The Fox plays rock music from the 70's, 80's & 90's and will also air a PSA of our mutual friend & colleagues at the Library Project to drum up more support to this worthy cause. Have a listen every Friday, 9am to... whenever!

Well done video of the growing jazz scene in Shanghai featuring local and foreign jazz musicians.

Chinese people on the internet respond to the East Nanjing Road stabbing incident that hurt 5 people. Shanghainese and other Chinese argue about who is to blame. Shanghai say it is always the "outsiders" who commit crime. Others say Shanghainese are xenophobic and discrimination against non-Shanghainese people as outsiders.

In this episode, Sufei takes a trip back to 1930s Shanghai, when her psychoanalyst father shows up for a visit. Sufei's father and his family fled Nazi Germany when he was a baby, so he spent the first few years of his life in China. Together, Sufei and her father return to Shanghai in search of his childhood home.

Shanghai writer/blogger Megan Shank retells her experience of having a local Shanghai taxi driver confess that she would be his last fare, as he was going to kill himself that night.

For anyone that's had the tragedy of suicide touch their lives, or really just for anyone, this is a must read.