If you were in the vicinity of the South Bund recently, you might have come across the Eco Design Fair. Now in its fourth year, the Eco Design Fair brought together exhibitors offering organic and environmentally friendly products and services.
Exhibitors included Arabica Roasters, Bebemamie Food Company, who offer delicious yoghurt and cream cheese among other products, Greendotdot, Ecobibi, with their environmentally friendly baby products and products for women, Zurner, who offer ethnic design bags and jewelry, cool clothing company Snoozer Loser, and organic skin care providers myLOHAS.
If you’ve been around Shanghai or lived in China for a while, chances are you’ve noticed it – the all too common white expat male who seems to have a fascination with all things Asian: Asian culture, Asian food, Asian language, and most notably, Asian women. If you haven’t noticed this phenomenon already, try doing a little research for yourself. Dive into the “
Duan Wu Jie, the Dragon Boat Festival, commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a poet who lived between 340 B.C. and 278 B.C. In response to the corruption of the government, he threw himself in a river and committed suicide. He was well loved by the people, who went out onto the river in dragon boats, either to scare away the fishes or to try to recover his body – so the story goes. Thereafter, each year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people would eat zongzi (bamboo wrapped rice dumplings) and race dragon boats to remember the poet. 
The growing phenomenon of 
ShanghaiExpat is pleased to report that there were no deaths at Friday night's Literary Death Match, part of both the Shanghai International Literary Festival and the JUE Festival, despite the aggressive atmosphere of menace that surrounded the writers as they sized one another up before and during their readings. A shot was fired at writer Jenn Chan Lyman as she read her short story Ophiuchus aka 2012 but Chan Lyman is in a stable condition. She suffered mostly from shock, just like the audience did after hearing her tale of geeks struggling to get laid by using the ploy of their newly discovered star sign, Ophiuchus, “a dude wrestling a snake” who represents the “monster masturbators of the universe” according to one of the characters. Fellow participant Nancy Conyers, who told the tale of a honey-blonde Texan, sashaying her clueless way through Shanghai, was not harmed but her main character was cheated in the marketplace and cheated on in the bedroom.
The Glamour Bar filled up quickly as Jonathan Watts prepared at the front of the room, gathering together his material on his laptop and waiting for the technological tantrums to be tamed. Outside, rain and smog - somewhat appropriately - obscured the Glamour Bar's famous views across the river. Watt's book, When a Billion Chinese Jump, outlines the problem posed by China's drive towards modernization and its exponential increase in consumption.China's sheer size in terms of population heralds an Industrial Revolution with environmental effects many times worse than that which took place in Europe during the 19 th century. 
2 pm Sunday March 6th 2011
In the last couple of years a new term has been used on the Chinese interweb – an expression used to describe a single girl over the age of 25. That term is Shengnu. It literally means 'Left Woman'.
The One Day on Earth archive is up on the net and our dear old Shanghai is part of it. The project invited people around the world to grab a camera and record their point of view or simply a moment on the 10th October 2010 (10/10/10). All of these videos were then brought together into a publicly available and searchable archive that is mapped geographically 