Shanda is a different company to Wemade lol, you can find lots about their history by searching. Shanda have been running their own version of Mir2 in China for years, obviously they recently bought the rights to Mir3 as well. We didn't realise it wasn't online yet though :s
You will need a Chinese SS no. to play though.
Ahh right well i read on wiki that shandra were the ones that made wool, and rather than face legal stuff they bought WeMade instead, so along with it i guess mir2 and mir3
And yeah we have the luxury in the fb grp ofchinese people so they explain this stuff to us lol