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As Second Life moves in on Chinese Second Life-clone HiPiHi's territory, and floats the possibility of a Chinese version of Second Life, the virtual world world is heating up in Beijing...but will Chinese care?

Wang Li, a "new Shanghaiese" shares with us how she became involved in Chinese civil society: "In 1991 I came to Shanghai from Sichuan, and with [my husband] Ku Haiyang , a disabled person, started a happy family, living a simple and quiet life. But in 2001, an event changed my previous ideas. I was given the opportunity of getting a free prosthetics by a charitable organization, and getting help in a gratuitous way changed my feelings and moved me deeply..."

Ever the capitalist "running dog" of Chinese cities, Shanghai just shrugs its shoulders at the Olypics and looks forward to the Big Nugget: the 2010 World Expo. Read on, Baby...

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An old Chinese saying goes: "People regard food as their prime want." The greeting words of Chinese people are so distinctive and well-known around the world: “have you eaten?” People often greet their friends or acquaintances in this way in China. Though this custom has changed among young people and is most prevalent in rural areas, it shows how Chinese people attached great importance to their food.

An Olympic short-track speed skating champion at the age of just 20, a pint-sized bundle of energy who took on the world and won. Wang Meng was all ready to replace Yang Yang as China’s queen of the ice, but then she went and opened her mouth....

Fresh out of college, American Dana Burton arrived in China to bring hip-hop to the Middle Kingdom. Now, eight years later, he’s become the godfather of hip-hop in the most populous country in the world. FP talks to the 32-year-old impresario about his unlikely journey from the streets of Detroit to the nightclubs of Shanghai.

Do Free Trade Agreements which are generally intended to favor the bigger country, end up forcing the other country into economic conditions which hinder quality, being that it's clear the Multinational corporations go to third world countries to enhance their profits, and give less attention to quality, due to industrial rules infancy in the third world countries?

Video blog #3 from my vblog collection. For this entry I decided to turn my camera on those that know the most about life - kids, roughly five hundred of them to be non-exact. My primary school recently invited me to accompany them on a field trip to a park in downtown Dalian. For 50% of the journey I had no idea what we were going to be doing and the other bit was mostly just saying