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Stories about People in Shanghai

Chinese Filmmaker Jia Zhangke

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

Once-banned, director Jia Zhangke seeks wider audience in China...

Destinations: Shanghai | China
Topics: People | Performing Arts
Shanghai Triad

Film Review: Shanghai Triad

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [28,911]

Beautiful and exotic leading lady Gong Li is the centerpiece of this underworld film noir as seen through the wide-eyed innocence of Shuisheng, a country bumpkin brought to Shanghai by his Uncle Liu...

Destinations: Shanghai | China
Topics: People | Literature | Performing Arts
Tony Leung and and Wei Tang in Lust, Caution

Film Review: Lust, Caution

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [28,911]

Ang Lee steps into the world of film noir with his World War II romantic thriller starring Wei Tang and Tony Leung as secret lovers on opposite sides of the Chinese-Japanese conflict.

Destinations: Shanghai | China | Hong Kong
Topics: People | Performing Arts | 20th Century History | War & Conflict
Opium Den display in the Shanghai City Museum

Opium

MaryLou Driedger - marylou [4,427]

Opium had a devastating impact on China just over a hundred years ago. One man tried to stop it but he wasn't successful.

Destinations: Shanghai | China | Macau
Topics: Culture | Economy | People | Adventure | 20th Century History | Traditions | War & Conflict
A really good gentleman caller is every flower girl's dream...

Film Review: Flowers of Shanghai

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [28,911]

Based on the novel Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Pang-ch'ing, Flowers of Shanghai tiptoes into the sepia-toned world of four Shanghai ‘flower houses', where gentleman callers gather to imbibe the...

Destinations: Shanghai | China
Topics: Culture | People | Performing Arts
The Home Song Stories promotion poster

Film: The Home Song Stories

Diana Tan - dtan [1,352]

The Home Song Stories, an entry to the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, is inspired by the true story of Rose, a single mother of two and a glamorous Shanghai nightclub singer, who struggles to survive ...

Destinations: Shanghai | China | Singapore | Hong Kong
Topics: Culture | People | Performing Arts
Hong kong peoples in a ferry to mainland with a Olympic logo in backgraound.

China grow with modern city in traditional way

Adli Ghazali - adlighazali [20]

I have been to Hong kong, Shenzhen and Shanghai in a 2 weeks trip. Got a chance to go to Shanghai from Shenzhen in a train for about 16 hours journey. Difference city have their own different...

Destinations: Shanghai
Topics: People

Bright Lights, Big Congee

Kenneth Champeon - kchampeon [19,632]

Review of Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby.

Destinations: Shanghai | China
Topics: People | Literature

Shanghai: Coming Alive

Tara Russell - taravrussell [694]

Daybreak. A ballet. No word better describes the movement and activity beginning to stir on and around the streets of Shanghai. Swift movement, strength, and diversity consume the streets creating...

Destinations: Shanghai | China
Topics: Travel | People

A Tale of 2 Chinese Cities

Hwee Min Liew - hmliew [436]

When I told my friends that I was going backpacking in China, they all thought that I was crazy. "Why would you want to go somewhere where you can hardly find decent toilets?" was a question many...

Destinations: Shanghai | China
Topics: Travel | People
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