Shanghai (CNN) — The only souvenir that Xie Jinghua has from her stay at a Holiday Inn Express located in a vast tourism park alongside the East China Sea is a room key. (more…)
Just down the street from Fudan University, one of the top colleges in China, and across from a massive shopping complex that has a Wal Mart, a couple of Starbucks and KFCs, H&M, Sephora and Zara, among other Western brands, lives Feng Zhenghu who for 24 hours a day, 7 days a week is barred from leaving his home. (more…)
Shanghai, China (CNN) — Since the high-profile escape of a blind Chinese activist in April, life has become worse for Feng Zhenghu, a dissident who lives in an apartment on the outskirts of this Chinese metropolis.
Plainclothes henchmen attacked journalists from two European news organizations on Wednesday as they investigated land grab protests that began earlier this month in the Zhejiang village of Panhe, according to Shanghaiist: (more…)
One man’s barbershop trimmings are another man’s industrial protein. And it’s 31-year-old Jiangsu native Wang Wei’s job to get the hair off the floor and to the factory. (more…)
Huijin Ge kisses her dogs Simba and Little Grey before the start of a dog owners meetup at Hua Ting Village.
How many Shanghai residents stand apart from other Chinese cities by treating their dogs as part of the family
Published on CNNGo. Photo and written by Gillian Bolsover, Fixed by Jack Zhang. (more…)
Published in the Nov issue of That’s Shanghai. Click on the link for a much better layout and some pictures.
Pushbike handymen are a dying breed in downtown Shanghai
In downtown Shanghai it’s getting tougher to spot street-side bike repairmen. The switch to electric bikes and scooters, coupled with the pretty price of city living, makes it tough for guys that only work on bicycles.
Published in the Nov issue of That’s Shanghai. Click on the link to see a much better layout and pictures of this article.
Welcome to the White Collar Hotel
Where Shanghai’s newest job hunters check-in
“A new feature illustrating how people from outside Shanghai make this city their home”
The grimy staircase leading up to the White Collar Hotel is plastered with giant ads for online fantasy games. Busty women wearing tiaras and carrying long-handled axes are the gatekeepers for a world that’s residents have one mission: Find a job. (more…)
#That’s the full length feature story of That’s Shanghai ‘s Oct cover story.
Those who have been keeping an eye on my blog may find this article similar to the Interview Of the Homeless People. Yes, they are both in the bottle picking business, they both cannot afford a home here in Shanghai, and they both live at the very bottom of society. But there are some key differences between the homeless people from Anhui and the pocket Hukou owners who were born and grew up in Shanghai. This is where Cai’s story begins.
#That’s the full length feature story of That’s Shanghai ‘s Oct cover story.
I met Zha in front of the Chinese Club 88 on my way to have dinner with a friend of mine. He was on his handicap motorcycle, and in front of him was a big wooden box. Inside the box, I saw several small bike models made out of electrical wires. They were well-made and looked very appealing to a semi-pro cyclist like me. (more…)
The article below was written by Leslie Jones and me, it was posted on urbanatomy.com. Please go to here for a better edited version and pictures of those famous people.
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For Chinese netizens hungry for information that won’t make it into tightly-controlled traditional media outlets, Twitter is one of the best resources going – along with an assortment of blogs and the forum 1984 BBS. In July 2009, after riots in Xinjiang, the micro-blogging service was blocked. Now, it can only be accessed via proxy server inside China. (more…)
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