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Shanghainese Asked to Speak Putonghua: People from other parts of China often complain that visiting Shanghai is like arriving in a strange city.

Headhunting Heats Up in China Market: The world's largest law firms are intensely interested in China and the other fast-growing economies of Asia. But firms eager to open or expand offices there are finding the supply of lawyers is outstripped by demand.

Fur flies as rivals pit the panda against the monkey in battle for Olympic glory: China's Communist Party officials are locked in a battle over which animal to choose as mascot for the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

China's model for a censored Internet: As China began to go online, observers made brash predictions that the Internet would pry the country open. Cyberspace, the thinking went, would prove too vast and wild for Beijing to keep under its thumb.