A bumper Monday edition:

• Hong Kong's smog claims the Kitty Hawk.
• Nude chat is almost not illegal in China.
• The general fallacy in Western analysis of China.
• Can Bush solve China's Yasukuni problem? Maybe it's Japan's Yasukuni problem.
• Imperialism and the Kowloon-Canton Railway.
• Now they're all the rage, what to buy your mistress.
• Reporting and stereotyping on the Chinese.
• Bingfeng has a handy roundup of several interesting China press articles (some have been linked here previously), including one on China's press crackdown. More optimistically Lisa and Newsweek see the potential of the press as a democratising force.
• Kim Jong-il's handy make-up hints.
• Singapore sacks its hangman for taking his hood off.
• PR mistakes in Harbin's water crisis. Wait until the governmnet co-opts Will for all its PR needs...and I wonder if he charged ESWN by the minute for the analysis! Also the Harbin debacle has exposed corporate China's lack of insurance. And the potential for good to come out of the spill.
• Campus life proves difficult for little emperors.
• China's investment restrictions work.
• Today's must read (amongst many other great links today): The Little Dragons and a changing Taiwan narrative.
• Links on the Malaysian Chinese prisoner scandal.
• Bruce Lee....in Bosnia.
• An incredible piece on the changing thoughts of Liu Guogong, a former Central Committee member and top ideologue on what's gone wrong with Chinese capitalism (via CDT).
• China's uphill battle for stronger banks.
• A judge tests China's courts (via LfC).
• Expats cause severe "snack" bar glut in Beijing (via JP)
• It ain't easy being a Chinese kid.
• Everything else takes a back seat to China's economic ambitions.
• Michael Turton and Andrew Meyer trade thoughts on the impact of cross-straits relations on Taiwanese and Chinese political culture. Proof again that much of the best and most interesting thinking is there for you, for free, in the blogosphere.
• William Pesek asks if China will have the last laugh?
• China: a nation of agents.
• How to Shangfang legally.
• Shere Hite does Shanghai.
• (15:23) The myth of America's obligation to defend Taiwan.
• A new paradigm for Asian economic development?
• The meaning and implications of PoC's yuan currency swap.
• (18:01) A great article on the limits to reforms of China's Statistics Law.