Shanghaiist | 482 followers on LinkedIn. Shanghaiist is part of Gothamist LLC, the most visited network of city blogs on the Internet today. Founded in 2005, Shanghaiist has emerged as one of the most popular English-language websites about China, covering local news, events, food, and entertainment for a diverse audience of young and affluent urbanites. Driven entirely by word-of-mouth, Shanghaiist has grown solidly year-on-year to hit more than a million unique visitors and close to 3 million pageviews each month by late 2013.