Shanghai’s elderly waltz back to the past at lunchtime dance halls

Establishments such as the historic Paramount Ballroom are time capsules from the 1930s. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...
Yahoo

Photos give rare glimpse of history: They fled the Nazis and found safety in Shanghai

They sailed into Shanghai in July 1939 during the worst of the summer heat, finding a patchwork city of 4 million people throbbing with rickshaws, beggars, opium dens and malaria. For Gerd "Jerry" ...
Sixth Tone

The Cartoonist Capturing Life in Shanghai’s Parks

Editor’s note: Forest parks, People’s Parks, historic French parks, formal Chinese gardens, downtown pocket parks ... Shanghai’s 532 parks make up the most extensive system of public space of any ...
Business Insider

An American in Shanghai says the city isn't 'back to normal, but people feel safe again' as China's coronavirus cases drop

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NPR

Shanghai residents speak out against China's zero COVID strategy

NPR's A Martinez talks to Don Weinland of The Economist, about life in Shanghai in the midst of draconian lockdown measures that have lasted more than a month to try to stop the spread of COVID-19.
Northcountrypublicradio.org

A story of Jewish Shanghai, told through music

A fictional tale of the real-life Jewish community in Shanghai during World War II — with a cross-cultural love story at its heart — is... A story of Jewish Shanghai, told through music Among all the ...
Jewish United Fund

New exhibit spotlights the experience of ‘Shanghai Jews’

Gift of Doris Fogel, in memory of her mother Edith Warschawski. A new Illinois Holocaust Museum exhibition offers a glimpse into the daily lives of the approximately 20,000 Jewish "stateless refugees" ...
Marketplace

A look at lockdown life in Shanghai

China’s financial hub, Shanghai, is entering its fourth week of a strict lockdown to contain the spread of COVID. Tesla and some companies have started to resume work at their facilities, but that’s a ...
Publishers Weekly

Shanghai Rhythm: PW Talks with Jennifer Haigh

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... In Haigh’s novel Rabbit Moon, a young American woman’s parents visit her in Shanghai, where she’s in a coma from a hit-and-run. How did the ...
Cfr.org

China: Life In Shanghai During the Pandemic

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. This post is part of a series from Asia Unbound. The post is authored by Peidong ...
The New York Times

Shanghai’s Lockdown Tests Covid-Zero Policy, and People’s Limits

A staggered lockdown on China’s commercial capital of 26 million people has sent beleaguered residents scrambling and raised fears of broader damage to the economy. By John Liu and Paul Mozur Even ...