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Shanghai Street View: Passing Parties
Party ends on Yongkang Lu This week’s Street View centers on Xuhui District, where 2 major developments spotlight how rapid changes are creating headaches for some residents and undermining businesses...
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Shanghai Street View: Grouped Out
Groups explode on WeChat This week’s Street View takes us to Shanghai’s cyber realm, where I feel compelled to write about a recent trend that has seen an explosion in chat groups on the hugely popular...
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Shanghai Street View: Traffic Triumph
Traffic perceptions improve on Shanghai streets As the latest heat wave shows no signs of easing its grip on Shanghai, our local officials are trying to provide some relief by releasing a report that...
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Shanghai Street View: Linguistic Loss
Lu Gusun’s dictionary lives on after his death A sense of loss and also a surge of nostalgia were my first reactions on reading an obituary this week for the man credited with creating mainland China’s...
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Shanghai Street View: Disney Doodads
Long lines, no rides for irate Disney visitors Two stories from our 2-month-old Shanghai Disneyland are taking center stage in this week’s Street View, one involving some irate visitors who had to wait...
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Shanghai Street View: Cleanup Compulsion
Shanghai steps up security for G20 Summit Beijing may have APEC Blue, but Shanghai is quickly developing its own brand of welcome for the upcoming G20 Summit set to take place next month in nearby...
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Shanghai Street View: Honing Hospitality
Pudong canal town rolls out welcome mat I had a sense of deja vu on reading about a plan to develop a scenic river town near our new Disney Resort into a bed and breakfast (B&B) district as a way...
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Shanghai Street View: Nebulous Newspapers
Oriental Morning Post reportedly set for closure Another one bites the dust. That was my first reaction on reading a thinly sourced report on news portal Sina that Shanghai’s somewhat cerebral Oriental...
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Shanghai Street View: Mooncake Musing
Mooncakes make comeback Mid-Autumn Festival is fast approaching, and that means time for all the usual scandals and other negative news surrounding mooncakes, the ultra-heavy treat that suddenly...
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Shanghai Street View: Biking Revival
Mobike pedals into Shanghai The fast lanes of Shanghai’s streets have been full of change these last few months, in a campaign by thousands of police and other assistants to tame our unruly traffic....
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Shanghai Street View: Tricky Traditions
Ikea clamps down on freeloading seniors in Shanghai As fall rapidly descends on Shanghai, two of our city’s newer traditions are in the headlines this week, raising the question of what really defines...
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Shanghai Street View: River Respite
Shanghai rolls out Huangpu River walkways In 6 years of living in Shanghai, I’ve come to discover my adopted China hometown has a major common characteristic with my US adopted hometown of Los Angeles....
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Shanghai Street View: Change’s Challenges
Residents urged to accept new homes at complex set for demolition As my 6 year sojourn in Shanghai rapidly winds down, a couple of items from my daily life this past week seem to nicely summarize many...
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CHINA VIEW: Dinosaurs Haunt Halls of China Post
China Post set for extinction? The rapid demise of post offices worldwide certainly isn’t limited to China, and is just one of the many global trends being fueled by the Internet. But in China the...
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