Shanghai

Sex in Shanghai? The Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture

Anonymous — Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:47:29 +0000

* * * Shanghai would seem the perfect home for a sex museum given a colonial history that at its peak teemed with enough dance halls and houses of ill-repute to earn it the title "Whore of the...

Chinese Filmmaker Jia Zhangke

Anonymous — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:59:51 +0000

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

Film Review: Lust, Caution

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:39:39 +0000

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.

Film: The Home Song Stories

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 08:48:56 +0000

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 ...

An Inside Guide to Shanghai’s Must-Do Activities

Anonymous — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 09:24:24 +0000

Chat with any group of Shanghai experts, and you'll likely hear several different versions of a perfect itinerary. Want my two cents? Give this collection of must-do experiences a whirl!

Film Review: Shanghai Triad

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 19:30:39 +0000

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 to serve as a houseboy for Xiao Jingbao, a nightclub singer and mistress to Boss Tang, a major player in Shanghai's "triad."

Shanghai Skyline

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:04:56 +0000

At the speed of all the construction in Shanghai, the skyline is ever changing. One has to wonder what will happen in just 5 months. It's no longer measured in years. If you have more recent...

Book Review: The Red Thread by Nicholas Jose

Anonymous — Fri, 16 Nov 2001 02:36:33 +0000

An ambitious undertaking by acclaimed author Nicholas Jose , The Red Thread picks up where the classic Chinese literary work, Six Records of a Floating Life leaves off. This modern text weaves an...

Opium

Anonymous — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 15:50:26 +0000

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

Film Review: Flowers of Shanghai

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:02:47 +0000

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 pleasures of food, drink, opium, and the favors of the resident ‘flower girls', each with her own dreams, desires, and disappointments.

Shanghai: Where The Past And Future Collide

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 15:23:33 +0000

In Shanghai, the future is displacing the past so fast that there is hardly any present...

Shanghai's tallest building plan could be upstaged by New York

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Feb 2003 00:00:17 +0000

Shanghai, Feb 9, 2003 - In the global competition to erect the world's tallest building, it seems New York could upstage Shanghai's grandiose ambitions. A week ago China's thriving eastern metropolis...

Recipe: Beggar's Chicken

Anonymous — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 21:52:59 +0000

This dish is my own variation on a classic Shanghai dish with a baking technique that involves wrapping a whole stuffed chicken in lotus leaves and coating it with clay that hardens into a brittle shell for diners to break at the table.

Shanghai World Financial Centre

Anonymous — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:06:19 +0000

China's tallest tower aims to take Shanghai higher

Xintiandi spells "shanghai"

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 10:47:06 +0000

Shanghai's Xintiandi entertainment district is famous for its restaurants and bars in Shikumen houses, a style of architecture that dates back to the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-1800s.