We’ve tweeted a lot over the time of the Shanghai Expo and we’ve come up with our TOP 19 Tweets having to do with the Shanghai Expo.

1.  开心网中国中央电视台的新闻: 有关部门经过历时一年半的研究，发现女性上厕所的时间比男性长，所以有针对性地调整了世博会的厕所配置。 CCTV: women take longer in the bathroom than men! Expo changed accordingly. 3:50 PM Apr 24th

2.  Shanghai Expo Spanish Pavilion has a huge creepy baby. http://ht.ly/1EFhO I can almost see the baby picking people up and eating them. 10:52 AM Apr 29th

3.  RT @shanghaidaily: Good morning! Today is a big day. Expo is going to open in about 9 hours! I HOPE YOU ARE READY!? 12:01 AM Apr 30th

4.  Shanghai Expo visitors had better bring a good book next time they line up outside pavilions, waiting times 2 and 4 hours. -China Daily 8:49 AM May 1st

5.  We’re going to start #Shanghai #Expo 2010 comics every Monday till this whole darn expo thing is over. We’ve got some good ones coming up! 12:54 AM May 2nd

6.  #Shanghai Expo can’t get these big occasions right http://ht.ly/1GbMs Chinese aren’t very good at queueing but do the traditional mêlée, 9:06 AM May 3rd

7.  Crowds endure waits as Shanghai’s Expo opens http://ht.ly/1GzIW “People still lining up at midnight to visit pavilions.” 11:28 PM May 3rd

8.  FORBES #Shanghai Expo USA Pavilion http://ht.ly/1GzRi “‘In 1994 Congress passed a law that State Department couldn’t spend money on expos” 11:39 PM May 3rd

9.  Today our 2 year old said that he likes to eat 海宝 hǎibǎo. He was supposed to say 汉堡 hànbǎo. 海宝 hǎibǎo is the #Shanghai Expo mascot! 啊呀！ 1:50 PM May 5th

10.  Great Title: #Shanghai Expo: Squat Toilets and Touch screens http://ht.ly/1JwYo “Locals have an astounding capacity to nap in public.” 9:20 AM May 11th

11.  WOW you thought #Shanghai Expo HAIBAO 海宝 was bad? London Olympics mascots are worse! http://ht.ly/1Nqy4 They call it “Patronizing Rubbish.” 1:05 AM May 20th

12.  Ahmadinejad will be attending Expo #Shanghai 2010 http://ht.ly/1V7dy “Clinton said Iran would pull some stunt in the next couple of days” 12:30 PM Jun 7th

13.  Unbelievable video on YouKu http://ht.ly/1Wwx7 Shanghai Expo at the Chinese Pavilion when the door opens after the security check. MUST SEE! 1:05 AM Jun 10th

14.  VIDEO: China Pavilion – marching of the lemmings http://ht.ly/27zzU 2 hours from the gate of the Expo to the belly of the China Pavilion. 2:00 PM Jul 6th

15.  Kobe Bryant in Beijing. Chery Cars denies spying on General Motors. Yao Ming at the EXPO. I wonder if he can get to the front of the line? 9:35 AM Jul 27th

16.  “Shanghai demonstrated that when you host the World Expo, the world comes to you and I want the world to come to CA.” -Governator, CA 9:43 AM Sep 13th

17.  One more month of the Shanghai EXPO. Tibet has the plague. Japan and China aren’t apologizing. And China buying more… horses? 10:47 AM Sep 26th

18.  Great article on @ChinaGeeks about beating up on the Shanghai Expo http://ht.ly/2Lsi6 “empty buildings, and videos are waiting for you.” 12:20 AM Sep 29th

19.  人山人海 rénshānrénhǎi A sea of people. Example: 10/03/10 Forbidden City Beijing http://ht.ly/2NOOu 10/03/10 Shanghai Expo http://ht.ly/2NOON 12:05 AM Oct 4th

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Did you tweet about the Expo?  What were some of your classic tweets?

English Life in China
by Sir Henry Knollys
Copyright 1885

“As we enter the Yellow Sea, the hitherto blue water assumes the colour and consistency of pea-soup; we steam a short distance up the Yang-tsze-Kiang River, the mere pronunciation of which brings on a sore throat, and arriving at its confluent the Hwangpoo, are transferred to a tug to enable us to cross the rapidly silting-up Woosung bar, which subsequently assumed importance as a tactical obstacle to French operations. We paddle through slime, amidst darkness and bitter cold, for about ten miles to Shanghai.  Here some dozen brilliant meteors, the last efforts of that electric light which here, as elsewhere, succeeded in enriching the directors and impoverishing the shareholders, reveal some large English buildings standing out in weird distinctness through the surrounding darkness, and the scene is rendered still more striking by the sudden influx of swarms of hideous chattering Chinese coolies springing on board from the adjacent wharf, like a flock of sheep through a gap.”

I love the descriptive words of the rivers: blue water, pea-soup, slime  and rapidly silting.

The book can be found here.

Check out a more modern book that looks great. Put together by another Husband/Wife team Chinese/Western team. They both teach at a school in the midwest.