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The Shanghai Wild Animal Park

Out beyond Pudong in Nanhui County, some 35 kilometers from Shanghai’s city center, is a flat expanse of retired farmland offering..

Gao Ming has never seen a museum display like this before. There’s an ivory comb used for pubic hair, a set of porcelain tea cups..

Shanghai’s Sea Cloud Garden Bathing House doesn’t exactly offer the romanticism and charm of the family run Beijing bathhouse..

Shanghai is not a very popular place to study Mandarin Chinese. That’s because most Shanghainese folk don’t speak standard..

I have to admit to a certain thrill of triumph when I found out that the Wonderbra went crawling home last year after two years of trying..

Looking for an antidote for the heat? Got caught sneaking into the Portman Ritz Carlton pool (still highly recommended) Looking for an easy..

Whether a first time visitor or long-term resident, it is easy to be charmed by the atmosphere of downtown Shanghai. Quiet, tree-lined..

Beyond the outer reaches of the Longhua area, in that polluted industrial ghetto to the south of fair Shanghai, runs Longwu Lu. This..

Foreigners who have been around China for a while (and are ostensibly in the know) will tell you that there are lots of..

Shanghai is a city populated with the ghosts of history. Its mostly well-preserved architecture belies a mélange of international and..