Chinese Lives

This blog gives you a real china’s image by telling real grass-root Chinese’s own story, something you’ll never see on official newspapers.

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Who push up Shanghai house price

December 26th, 2007 · No Comments

           House price in China’s big cities become incredibly out of reach. Below shows average property price in London and Shanghai in 2007. Bear in mind, average capable buyers in Shanghai bring in home merely 1/6 of UK families, taking into account of currency exchange rate, and China is still a developing country.
 BBC report on London house price.

Average Cost: £377,807
Detached: £769,519
Semi-detached: £423,889
Terraced: […]

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Tags: house price

What Paris Hilton wears in Shanghai?

November 27th, 2007 · 1 Comment

As we expect before, Paris Hilton wears China rouge for several show event during her stay in Shanghai. We have to admit that she looks completely different from her sexy party girl ususal image. China’s tour adds some elegant element to her, and she becomes more familiar to Chinese people. Besides beautiful pictures, below it […]

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Tags: People

15 people stampeded in Shanghai for a bottle of oil

October 30th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Original chinese article from:
http://www.backchina.com/newspage/2007/10/28/136192.shtml
Yesterday, 15 people got hurt while hundreds stampeded to claim their lower-priced soy oil, five minutes after Le Gou supermarket opened. Local sources said before 7 in the morning, people lived nearby started queueing at front door or side doors, holding promotion voucher delivered to their mail box by the supermarket. With […]

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Tags: Social problems