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Highlights from Shanghai Fashion Week: 2022 Spring/Summer
The latest Shanghai Fashion Week (October 8 to 16) is coming to a close. Here are some of the things we saw and liked.
Prada takes over a grocery store in Shanghai
A wet market in Shanghai is co-opted to help a luxury brand sell clothes. Has internet celebrity culture — China’s “wanghong” economy — gone too far?
The rise and fall of Shanghai’s ‘coffee king’
Chang Pao Cun was a coffee pioneer in China, one of the first people to bring the dark caffeinated beverage to locals. But his story, set against the unhinged origins of Shanghai coffee culture, is also full of tragedy.
Dispatch from Shanghai: The Chinese Communist Party at 100
The CCP was founded in 1921 as an agrarian party dedicated to redressing inequalities between the city and the countryside. On its centenary, Chang Che reflects on how the Party has evolved, and how its relationship with the people has changed.
When China’s Nationalist government lost Shanghai
The line that separated Nationalist China from the People’s Republic was not a bright one. In 1949, when the Communists took over, many fled Shanghai — but many more remained.
A final day at the races, and the end of Old Shanghai
On a November day in 1941, with Japanese forces moving in on Shanghai, the city gathered at the Shanghai Race Club to watch a running of the Champions’ Stakes — not knowing how everything would change soon after.
Shanghai Fashion Week 2020: What to watch for
Shanghai Fashion Week, the in-vogues’ craving du decade, kicked off on October 8 and will run until October 18. Here’s what we’re watching for.
More info on ShanghaiPRIDE shutdown: Team members asked to ‘have tea’
“Drinking tea” in China is a euphemism for being interrogated by police.
The end of ShanghaiPRIDE? Organizers cancel all upcoming activities
China’s biggest festival celebrating LGBT+ life abruptly announced the suspension of all its activities. Chinese internet users suspect the government is to blame.
Shanghai’s history of race, privilege, and escapism explored in ‘Champions Day’
James Carter examines Shanghai’s colonial past through the lens of a single event — its Champions’ Stakes horse race — and in doing so, paints a rich picture of the politics that enabled Shanghai’s so-called “golden era,” as well as the racial dynamics and social rituals that shaped daily life.
Model is slut-shamed after pervert takes upskirt photos at Shanghai anime convention
During an anime convention in Shanghai over the weekend, a man was caught on camera taking upskirt pictures of a female model from behind when she was posing for other photographers. But after the offender uploaded the images to Chinese social media, the victim herself became the target of an online backlash, shaming her for not doing enough to avoid being unwillingly photographed.
‘Shanghai Triad’: Zhang Yimou’s gangster drama told through a child’s eyes
It’s actually unfortunate that the English title is “Shanghai Triad,” which gives a dishonest emphasis on the mobsters. The Chinese title, taken from the lyrics of an old lullaby, better represents the movie’s theme of traditionalism or nostalgia clashing with modernity.
Struggling movie theaters in Shanghai get $2.5 million in stimulus aid
After being forced to close for months due to the COVID-19 pandemic, around 345 movie theaters in Shanghai have received much-needed financial aid of nearly 18 million yuan ($2.5 million) from the city’s film bureau. But with cinemas across the country showing no signs of reopening, China’s movie theater business is still expecting widespread bankruptcies.
A fresh look at the 1930s Jewish refuge, in ‘The Last Kings of Shanghai’
Jonathan Kaufman’s latest book provides an engaging, colorful history of Shanghai’s past that fully explores, but does not romanticize, the cosmopolitanism and colonialism of that era.
‘I Wish I Knew’: Jia Zhangke’s documentary is a rich collage of old Shanghai
A story of modern Shanghai, told with stories from the past. Footage of modern Shanghai, with its flashy skyscrapers and restless crowds, collides with quiet, stationary interviews of times long gone.
Long lines for grand opening of Popeyes Shanghai, which ran out of food
The classic fast-food restaurant joins Costco among the American consumer-facing brands to successfully enter China even amid a global pandemic and brewing geopolitical tensions.
‘One Person City’: Eerie photos of Shanghai during coronavirus
Nicoco is an American photographer who has been documenting the coronavirus outbreak in Shanghai in a photo series called “One Person City” (一个人城市 yīgè rén…
The necessary complexity behind ‘Chinese women’: Economic opportunity and gender equality in urban China
“One of the most valuable aspects of the city is the fact that it has so many opinionated and courageous young people. I could do…
Shanghai gets serious about garbage sorting and recycling
In the 1980s, China began importing scrap metal, plastic from recycling programs, and just about every other kind of foreign waste that could be processed…
On China’s World Cup and Summer Olympics hosting ambitions
The China Sports Column is a The China Project weekly feature in which China Sports Insider Mark Dreyer looks at the week that was in the China sports world…
