There is a good little community here in Shanghai, including these upcoming meetups on Meta Programming and AngularJS:

http://www.meetup.com/Shanghai-Agile-Scrum-User-Group/events... http://www.meetup.com/Shanghai-Agile-Scrum-User-Group/events...

We've been having these every month for the past year and a half. We're also having a JS meetup (node.js, marionette.js...) this Saturday: http://shanghaios.org