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Dukou Bookstore on Julu Road That a funny coincidence, I also went there on Sunday and found it to be a very nice place. And now you post these wonderful pictures that give a very good impression of how the store looks like. Great! |
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Beijing is Cultural Center I am a first time visitor to China and just have spent about 12 days in both Shanghai and Beijing. As I am not really into sipping beer in an european style bar I feel there is not much anymore which attracts me in Shanghai, but I certainly could have spent another interesting 2 weeks in Beijing. I'd say that for a foreigner visitor Beijing offers much more of interest. I found the people as helpful as in Shanghai if not more, but one must be a bit careful not to be overcharged for services and has to bargain hard. For living I can understand if somebody prefers Shanghai for superior variety of services offered, personally I'd prefer Beijing though. |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? Jie Lun thank you very much for all your advices. I have been to the various places and others. I find that e.g. at Hongkong Plaza laptops, hndphones and PCs can be had for good prizes, but that besides these products the choice of international brands is quite limited, and that generally internationally branded electronics made in China must get shipped out directly without ever making it to the chinese market. E.g. all the microphones and related articels which I know are made in China are not available anywhere. Kenneth, there are many quite cheap chinese mp3 and mp4 players, a popular 1 GB mp4 player costs about 450 RMB. though I do not remember it's brand name. 1 GB may be max. capacity, there might be a 2 GB model though, but rarely at display. They can be found at Hongkong Plaza but also pretty much at any department store throughout Shanghai. I can't comment much on their general quality e.g. sound as I tested two or three at the shoponly where is was very loud, but the quality of their display is very poor. Ipods are also readily available, an 1 GB - what is the name of the model again, the smallest one without any display, - was offered to me for as low as 320 RMB, but I think they are copied. not original products. Many small stalls in a building at the crossing of Central Fuxing Rd. and South Xiang Yang Rd. south of Central Huaihai Rd. Other international brands hardly to be found but some Samsungs. |
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I Don't Know about China Visa ellick, could you please be a bit more specific abput this location? Any metro station nearby, name of the place or anything alike? Generally, how easy/difficult is it to extend a 30 days tourist visa, how much should it be? thanks! |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? thank' a lot Jie Lun. I shall check out these places. No, I do not want to buy a notebook, I'd very likely be better off buying it in Japan ( where I am now ) or Europe ( where I am from and will be again end of oct. ) I also just found what I most wanted here in Japan: It is a Microphomne amplifier and even though it is made from an internationally well known japanese brand it actually says printed on it: 'made in china'. It is a product for a special target group only and I think I will have some friends interested to buy the same, but I do not have time to go back to downtown Osaka to buy more as I am leaving for Shanghai tomorrow. Do you think such an item can be found in Shanghai, or do items made from international brands manufactured in China get shipped overseas directly only without ever hitting the chinese market? |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai forgot to put contact info: please answer to: e_motion11@hotmail.com |
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Rent an Apartment in Shanghai Hi, Coming friday, aug 4th I shall arrive in Shanghai and I am very excited as it will be my fist time in mainland China. I will stay 1 month but also visit some cities in the area like Suzhou and Hangzhou. I hope very much that I will have private contact with locals or expats living in Shanghai and therefore would be very happy if I could rent a fspace or me in somebody's apartement. Of course being in a good location for sightseeing would be great, but much more important for me is the personal contact. An apartement all for myself, if avaiable for short time, also would be fine though. I am a widly travelled 45 year old male from Austria. thank you very much, Andreas |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? All the items I had listed I had bought in Japan..and they they were all 'officially' made in China. I am curious though: The mall you mentioned must be a good place to pick up eletronics then? I am not interested in 'international' brands though, I can get them better here in Japan. But I wonder where I can buy chinese branded Microphones and, hopefully, a Mic. preamp in Shanghai. Any suggestion where to find these? ( coming friday I will arrive in Shangahi and it will be my very first time in mainland China! ) |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? my latest shopping of japanese branded electronics here in Japan: 1 Panasonic CD/mp3 portable player, 1 small 1 GB, 1 big 20 GB iRiver mp3 player, 1 ext. harddisc casing,..ALL of them, including their power adapters, say: 'made in China' |
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Unsubscribe if You Don't Like Newsletters Have not subscribed to the newsletter, but please let me express here how happy I am to have found this wonderful blogg, the softspokenness and friendlyness of Jian Shuo Wang gives me very much confidence to come to Shanghai, thank you. |
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How Many Hotels in Shanghai? I like good and healthy food and would not eat at KFC or Mc. Donalds anyway. Much more reason now! |
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Cheap Place to Stay in Shanghai thank you very much carsten. in the meantime I had successfully contacted some other hotels, let'z see which one it will be. any chance - that anybody reading this could be interested to meet me, show me around Shanghai, go for a tea with me? |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? tek, the mic story could be an example of how it could work: first they copied internat. brands, later brands started to produce in China without hiding the fact, later Chinese brands evolved. - Though I have to admit that there are already copies of the SE electronic mics out by now which prooves your point. |
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Fake Market in Shanghai? Recently I got into 'audio recording' and learned that there are even copies of famous and expensive German or Russian ( Oktava Brand ) microphones made in China. Later some american produsers started to manufacture in China ( Sound Projects ) and as more and more expertise has been aquired own chinese brands developed, like e.g SE Electronics in Shanghai. In a few days, on aug 4th i will arrive in shanghai, it will be my very first visit to China. I am curious if I can find good, hopefully cheap microphones or other small, special electronics ( very much I's like to find a small mic preamp ) in Shanghai. Does anybody know which is the best place to get these kind of items in Shanghai? |
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Cheap Place to Stay in Shanghai On August 4th I will arive in Shanghai, I am very excited as it will be my first time in China. I am very glad to have found this site and the information about cheap accomodation, specially because I may stay for a few weeks. The Hotels listed however do not have any working online reservation in English. I wonder, or rather ask, could anybody please be so kind and moiake a reservation for me? It could be either a Motel 168 or the HomeInn, whichever you find more convenient, easier to book, and best located for a fist time Shanghai tourist. thank you very much for your kind attention, andreas |
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PVG: From Pudong Airport to Nanjing Ni hao, are there any news/updates about going to Nanjing from Pudong (PVG) airport and back(!)? I want to go to Nanjing from 2006/03/16 till 2006/03/20. I would arrive at PVG around 6pm (domestic) and my flight back will dep at 1:20pm (domestic). Is there a kind of "shared taxi service" available? At PVG or downtown? I can imagine at the arrival time (6pm) it's not easy to get one. Thx in advance for any info and help! zaijian, a n d r e a s |
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Starbucks in Shanghai hi! iam thinking about buying a digicam in china - does it make sense? iam german and e.g. the casio exilim costs about 270euros = 270 USD here in germany. i heard glasses are cheap in shanghai - is that true? could you comment on the sars-situation in shanghai? friends told me going out is difficult due to sars... thanx for your answer, greetings from good ol germany andreas |