There's an old Howlin' Wolf blues song that contains the line "The men don't know, but the little girls understand." Such is the case with American Chinese pop heart-throb Wang Leehom. He has boy-next-door charm, a gentle manner and a healthy physique. It all adds up to hordes of adoring female fans and at least an equal number of guys who just can't understand the attraction. To quote Wang: "My biggest goal is to compose music and hope it will bring the audience inspiration for life". Mos...

"Shanghai is so often associated with jazz. But the jazz you hear is mostly filled with nostalgia, decadence and petit-bourgeois mentality," according to Jiang Yipeng, who plans to shake up the scene this month with a new jazz festival. "The jazz that we're bringing into the 2004 Jazzy Shanghai week is upbeat and wayward" - much like Jiang's mission to transform this city's music scene. Beginning on May 2, Jazzy Shanghai has invited top musicians from Norway, France, Britain, Japan, China...