Category: China
China: Shanghai’s Dong Tai Road Antique Market
The Dongtai Road “antique market” in Shanghai well worth a visit and is a pleasant way to pass an hour or two, but don’t go there expecting to find anything really genuine… There is very little for sale that could be classified as actually antique, although you will find things like Chinese made cameras that [...]
China: The Shanghai Insect Market
Shanghai is a city of immense contrast and you don’t have to go much farther than the Bund area to see the most vivid of those contrasts. Here the wide and powerful Hangpu River separates the old colonial part of Shanghai from it’s brash new counterpart Pudong. But if you wander around Shanghai you will [...]
Traveling in China – Don’s Handy Hints…
I was recently back in China for 3 weeks, about 1.5 years after living there for nearly two years – it really is an interesting place, full of contradictions and very much a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. It’s basically a huge “parallel universe” of 1.3 billion where there are many superficial indications of western [...]
China: The “Shanghai can you take my picture at the Bund routine”
I am back in Shanghai on business almost two years since leaving at the end of an 18 month asignment here – so I was out and about yesterday seeing what had changed since I left and how many of the 20m+ habitants remember me. The answer to both questions was not much…. The city [...]
Shanghai – A Day Out At Ikea…
When I moved to Shanghai on an 18 month work assignment in early 2008, I rented a furnished apartment in the Xintiandi area. I soon realized that I needed to get some additional stuff and decided that the big new Ikea near the Indoor Stadium would have what I required. So I went there one Saturday to do [...]
Scott’s Shanghai Train Story…
For the last three weeks I have been back in China and had a colleague of mine, Scott Breeding, out from our company’s headquarters in the USA. Scott is quite a character – well read & traveled with a real passion for what he does and a seemingly endless stream of great one-liners. It was [...]
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