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SHANGHAI STREET VIEW: Shanghai-fying Canto Diners
Tsui Wah brings retro Canto to Shanghai Cantonese cuisine has become a local favorite in Shanghai these past few years, reflecting the city’s growing taste for both regional and international foods. An...
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Shanghai Street View: Coffee Craze
Coffee craze percolates through Shanghai A new report on Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX) plans to accelerate its China expansion made me realize just how overheated Shanghai has become with a recent explosion...
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SHANGHAI STREET VIEW: Encouraging Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneur programs get tepid reception A new program to encourage entrepreneurship at the city’s universities has been in the headlines these last few weeks, and on the surface at least looks like a...
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Shanghai Street View: Bulky Baggage
Public transport handles heavy baggage With the Lunar New Year fast approaching, local officials have begun their usual flood of announcements and new policy roll-outs designed to make travel just a...
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Shanghai Street View: Ayi Overtime
Spring exodus creates ayi shortage The annual Spring Festival travel rush has been hogging the headlines these last few weeks, but several news reports this week are casting a more human spotlight on...
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Shanghai Street View: Flavor Feast
Goubuli ties with Gloria Jean’s coffee A few food-related items, 2 in the news and one in my personal life, made me realize once more just how far China’s eating scene has advanced in the last 2...
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Shanghai Street View: Subway Sporting
Shanghai man outruns subway I often write about the Shanghai subway in the context of its many quirks and special features, but this week a different kind of underground story from the world of extreme...
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Shanghai Street View: Taming Traditions
More restrictions on firecrackers I’ll finish out the Year of the Horse with a bang, by touching on the explosive topic of fireworks and their rapidly evolving role in both our city and more broadly in...
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Shanghai Street View: Overpowered In Pingyao
Lights go out in Pingyao While many spent their Lunar New Year in a cutting-edge world of smartphones and virtual red envelope grabs, I had a chance to travel back to an older edition of China with a...
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Shanghai Street View: Smoking Scoundrels
Shanghai targets illegal smoking I had to smile to myself on reading the latest statistics about Shanghai’s ongoing crackdown on smoking in public places, which is showing generally positive trends. My...
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Shanghai Street View: Paradoxical Pay
China pay practices defy logic As someone who has lived and worked in both China and the west for roughly equal periods over the last quarter century, I can say with relative authority that Chinese pay...
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Shanghai Street View: Enigmatic Names
Chinese names get stranger As the spring semester gets underway at the university where I teach, I’m once again confronted with an issue that seems to get trickier with each passing year. That issue...
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Shanghai Street View: Color Coding
Shanghai rolls out traffic color scheme I’ve always thought Shanghai was quite a colorful place, and now it seems our city is determined to drive home that point with yet another color schemes in a...
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Shanghai Street View: Moldering Markets and Costly Choppers
Shanghai gets first city chopper tour News of the looming closure of one of Shanghai’s oldest wet markets is once again casting a spotlight on the issue of traditions, and their place in our city is it...
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Shanghai Street View: Modernizing Museums and Retiring Restaurants
Big crowds at new Natural History Museum This week’s Street View takes us to historic Jing’an District, where a pair of headlines are spotlighting the closing of a storied expat landmark and the...
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Shanghai Street View: Feeding Frenzy
Feeding frenzy at Pudong restaurant As someone who has followed financial markets for years, I can say with authority that a daily stock market move of more than 1.5 percent is quite rare and most...
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Shanghai Street View: Hazardous Hurling
High-rise windows pose falling objects hazard This week’s Street View takes us off the street and into the air to examine a couple of recent news stories involving objects that caused damage or even...
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Shanghai Street View: Entertainment Ethos
Cirque du Soleil sets up tent in Shanghai Flooded streets filled the Shanghai headlines for much of this week, but local officials were also working hard to make sure another, more upbeat story also...
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Shanghai Street View: Reliable Rides
Hired cars put taxis on defensive As a high-tech writer, I’ve been chronicling the story of Internet-based car services like Uber and Didi Kuaidi in China for the last 2 years and how they’re shaking...
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Shanghai Street View: Empowering Immigrants
Shanghai relaxes work visa rules My first hint that change was in the air for foreigners working in Shanghai came a couple of weeks ago on a visit to the foreign affairs office at the university where...
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