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Where to buy glasses in Shanghai

By Cankles | Published: October 26, 2009
Need new peepers? If you have your script handy there are plenty of places around town to get a stylish pair of glasses at a fraction of the cost you’d pay back home. When I was a wee new expat I was scratching my head at some of the asking prices of glasses around the [...]
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Shanzhai eye: Dike shoes

By Cankles | Published: January 19, 2009
I love Shanzhai (山寨) goods, aka counterfeit knockoffs, in China. Whenever there’s a fashionable good, a group of entrepreneurial go-getters are ready to re-create said good and serve it up in the fake markets. In Shanghai, western tourists can be seen flocking to the markets for a bit of brand-name Shanzhai action and scuttling out [...]
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