May your mid-autumn festival be full of mooncakes.

• Next time you're getting robbed, consider the chair defence.
• Memories of Hong Kong's Walled City and the Walled City's role in the Second Opium War.
• Jodi looks at the 'My Asian Wife' syndrome of some Asian English language bloogers.
• Taiwan's first lady takes on F4.
• Mainlanders comment on the behaviour at Hong Kong Disneyland of their fellow citizens. For example: I spend the money and I can do whatever I want. Logically that makes murder acceptable in the park.
• Contrast in the coverage of the cases of Nancy Kissel and Shum Ho-yin.
• How the New York Times conducts an interview.
• Bill Gates and Microsoft are fretting about Google. Both of them need to be worried about China (free download of Office-like software via that link).
• Japan's media is undergoing a crackdown (via Gaijin Biker), while Running Dog discusses Mao, Supergirls, Sister Hibiscus and the dumbing-down of journalism. Journalism might be dumbing down but Running Dog is always worth reading for its intelligent and insightful columns...for another example try Planet Tharg and the Three Represents (soon available online). If only it had an RSS feed!
• Never fear, Shanghai's Public Security Bureau is here.
• Shanghai has again become a valley of wealth, justifying the hype.
• China's students are getting ever-more depressed.
• For Beijing, fear grows as spirituality blooms. Howard French is one of the best Western journalists in China today. Accompanying his article is a photo gallery of Qinghai.
• Revoluntionary China, complacent America.
• New anti-money laundering regulations in China.
• Continuing a fine tradition of explosive demographic titles: China's bachelor bomb. No single men were injured in the making of that post.
• (16:07) Yao Ming - globalisation icon.
• Koizumi's China factor.