The dragon is the most mysterious of China's zodiac signs. They're the only mythical animal in the cycle, and dragon years are notorious for big, earth-shaking events. Since we're now staring into the eyes of another Dragon Year, we thought we'd better get prepared, and the ... Read More
Life coaches are experts in you, your life and the inner workings of your brain. But they’re also expensive—like RMB2,000 an hour expensive. So we’ve talked to some of Beijing and Shanghai’s best coaches and stolen their secrets. Read on to discover how you can ... Read More
We asked 287 Shanghai residents, both locals and laowai, how they feel about the past, the future, the city and the world in our Great Shanghai Survey. Last week we shared the results of what your friends and fellow Shanghairen had to say about 2011 and 2012. Here we take ... Read More
We asked 287 Shanghai residents, both locals and laowai, how they feel about the past, the future, the city and the world in our Great Shanghai Survey. Over the next week, we'll be sharing the results with you. Take a look here at what your friends and fellow Shanghairen ... Read More
This wildly popular game seems to symbolize Chinese culture, but mahjong’s emergence is relatively recent. Though some claim it was created by Confucius, the first concrete accounts of the game only appear in the late 19th century, and most believe the game was created in Shanghai by a wealthy ... Read More
Playing cards were invented in—wait for it—China! The first recorded reference to cards is in the ninth century Tang Dynasty text, A Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang.
Cards are more popular now than ever, as anyone who has strolled the streets of Shanghai will attest. But what are ... Read More
This game will be familiar to anyone who frequents Muse, Park 97, MT or any club with a high table-to-dance floor ratio. The game starts with a bid: everyone shakes up the five dice in their cup and one player guesses how many of a certain number are showing under ... Read More
Weiqi (also known as go) originated in China more than 2,500 years ago and is one of the world’s first board games, already popular by the third century BC. Players take turns placing stones on the intersection lines of a grid. The aim is to surround areas of ... Read More
This immensely popular Chinese game, whose title translates to “Killers of the Three Kingdoms,” is played with a specially made deck—you may have seen the cards being sold around People’s Square by street vendors. It was created in 2008, based on that favorite Chinese epic The Romance of ... Read More
Listen to the World’s First Jukeboxes| Shanghai Oriental Arts Centre
The Shanghai Gallery of Antique Music Boxes and Mechanical Works is a tiny gem tucked away on the fourth floor in the beautiful Oriental Arts Centre (RMB50). It’s home to the oldest music box in the world and ... Read More
Admit it—cheap massages are one of your favorite things about living in China. We’ve done the hard work of getting massages all over town, and have assembled this list of the best deals out there, broken down by neighborhood so that you’re never far from total relaxation ... Read More
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so we went out and searched the city to find the best breakfast dishes. Print this list out, stick it on your fridge and start crossing them off as you eat your way around Shanghai.
Egg Me On
If you’re ... Read More
Last year, 285,000 Chinese students went abroad to study, a 24 percent increase from 2009. Every year, many choose to stay overseas to gain work experience, but some come back, armed with a foreign education and experience. They are known as haigui or “sea turtles” (in Mandarin, haigui is ... Read More
You can have just about anything fully customized or made-to-order in China. Clothing, shoes, handbags, bikes, art, perfume, furniture - the possibilities are endless. Here we've rounded up some of our top places to go to get things made, or pimped out. Check them out below.
Fitting Furniture: One-off interior ... Read More
In the midst of China’s hurtle towards the future, sometimes it’s nice to take a look back. Laozihao (老字号), officially translated as “time-honored brands,” is a government distinction awarded to certain brand names and shops that have proven histories. Some of them date as far back as the ... Read More
Shanghai has exploded with fancy new cocktail bars and microbreweries in the past two years. So we asked beer experts Michael Jordan (of Boxing Cat Brewery), Cedric Bourlet (of Cheer’s In) and Leon Mickelson (of The BREW’s) to pair up with cocktail experts Sky Xu (of M1NT's ... Read More
The hotel biz is booming in Asia. Starwood alone is opening up a new hotel every two weeks, and that's just in China. So we rounded up Asia’s 15 can’t-miss destination hotels just in time for the summer travel season.
In a Treehouse | Sanya
Treehouse hotels abound ... Read More
Now that all the glitter has settled after the awards, we take a more in-depth look at the restaurants you picked as the best of the year.
Restaurant of the Year
Mr and Mrs Bund
In the two years that it’s been open, Mr & Mrs Bund has won five ... Read More
Now that all the glitter has settled after the awards, we take a more in-depth look at the bars and clubs you picked as the best of the year.
Bar of the Year
el Cóctel
el Willy opened el Cóctel a year and a half ago with GM and cocktail ... Read More
Fixed-gear bikes aren’t new, but in the past couple of months three new places have opened up in Shanghai designed for fixed-gear riders. There’s a new bike café set up by one of Shanghai’s diehard fixie enthusiasts, a new fixed gear bike shop and Factory 5, an ... Read More
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