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Editor’s Note for Monday, April 4, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: China and Ukraine officials speak on the phone, people reel under COVID zero, and more.
Shanghai residents seethe as city enters second week of lockdown
As Shanghai moves to extend its COVID lockdown, its 26 million residents are bearing the brunt of the cost.
Back to 2020 — Editor’s Note for Friday, April 1, 2022
A note for Access newsletter readers from Jeremy Goldkorn. Today: Shanghai is closed for business under COVID, allegations of Chinese hackers in Ukraine, and pop icon Jay Chou.
China’s COVID-19 spike and a clash of civilizations
We talked to global health policy expert Yanzhong Huang about why China is sticking to its COVID-zero strategy in the face of the biggest rise in infections since the early days of the pandemic in Wuhan in 2020.
Shanghai expands COVID lockdown as anger grows
As China’s commercial capital continues to implement a massive two-stage COVID lockdown, its 26 million residents are scrambling to adjust to the new curbs.
Shanghai lockdown sends its economy reeling
After a record number of COVID cases were reported on Sunday, Shanghai went into its largest citywide lockdown since the start of the pandemic.
China isn’t pivoting from COVID zero yet
Despite adjustments to its pandemic playbook, China is sticking to its dynamic COVID-zero approach.
Major cities lock down as Omicron breaks through China’s defenses
Shanghai and Shenzhen are among several major cities in China that have gone under lockdown as the nation hits a two-year high in new COVID-19 cases. What does this mean for the country’s COVID-zero policy?
Bye bye Li Keqiang — Editor’s Note for Friday, March 11, 2022
A note for readers from Jeremy Goldkorn.
Turning a new page
A look at six independent bookstores in Shanghai.
Blue Bottle Coffee debuts in Shanghai
The pricey hipster California chain Blue Bottle Coffee has opened its first mainland store in Shanghai, growing the list of brands that seek a foothold in the coffee hub of the world.
KFC China’s major condiment supplier to IPO
Baoli Foods makes everything from ketchup and spicy sauce to instant Italian pasta. Now the company wants to raise $70 million in a Shanghai listing.
‘B for Busy’ challenges the male gaze, wins Chinese audiences
Shao Yihui’s romantic comedy set in idealized Shanghai was the highest-rated movie in 2021 on Douban.
Chinese buy up Canadian Olympics team’s Lululemon down jacket
Lululemon’s maple-red jackets for the Canadian Olympic team were a hit in China, where the company’s website crashed several times due to an influx of traffic. Overseas, however, the outfits bombed.
New competition in China’s hip bar scene: COMMUNE raises funds to expand beyond 100 locations
COMMUNE, a trendy Chinese bar and restaurant chain, has nearly 100 locations across Beijing, Shanghai, and the country’s main provincial capitals. It has larger ambitions, and just raised “several hundred million yuan” to achieve them.
The embankment
Life inside a piece of Shanghai history
Shanghai redoubles efforts to promote robotaxis
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Luo Jialing, a.k.a. Liza Hardoon, and the height of global Shanghai
Shanghai is unlike any other Chinese city, with strands of Japan, Britain, America, and a dozen other places woven into its fabric. This Week in China’s History looks back to a moment when Shanghai was quintessentially global: the funeral of Luo Jialing.
The rise of Manner Coffee
In Shanghai, coffee has become an addiction. Can Manner Coffee expand to become China’s first major Starbucks rival?
Shanghai Disneyland locks in more than 30,000 people for testing after COVID scare on Halloween night
Pandemic control authorities locked down Disney’s biggest amusement park in China and mass tested all staff and visitors. It may have been a horrible way to spend Halloween for the people stuck in line for a swab test instead of a rollercoaster ride, but the action received widespread support on Chinese social media.
