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The ‘four giants:’ architectural feats 
that created the city’s iconic skyline

SHANGHAI’S skyline is dominated by towering skyscrapers known as the “four giants” in the Lujiazui financial center of the Pudong New Area. These architectural marvels — the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, ...

December 21, 2024, Saturday

The dramatic transformation of paddy fields into the ‘Wall Street of China’

ONCE muddy paddy fields and farmland, the Lujiazui area on the eastern banks of the Huangpu River was so dramatically transformed in just two short decades that it came to be called the “Wall Street of ...

December 14, 2024, Saturday

Exhibition looks at the world through eyes of Marco Polo

TO commemorate the 700th anniversary of the death of the famous Venetian traveler Marco Polo, a special exhibition is showing at the Shanghai Museum. “Wonders of the World: China and Beyond in the Eyes ...

December 7, 2024, Saturday

Global design competition provided the blueprint for Shanghai financial district

IN the early 1990s, a global design competition was held to select the best vision for plans to turn Lujiazui on the eastern shore of the Huangpu River into a world-class financial center. Five nations ...

December 7, 2024, Saturday

Learning theater technology 
in an immersive environment

THE Hesheng Institute of Theater Technology in Huichang County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, serves as an ideal environment for its students. As one of China’s few career-oriented institutes focusing ...

November 30, 2024, Saturday

Underground ‘steel veins’ underpinned the development of city’s eastern shore

PUDONG’S transformation into a global economic hub has been supported by its comprehensive underground transport system of more than 10 Metro lines. But it wasn’t like that when development of the eastern ...

November 30, 2024, Saturday

Beyond the ABCs: Middle school that turned idealism into resistance action

YANGJING Middle School in the Lujiazui area of Pudong became more than a place of learning during the war against Japanese invaders and the civil war against the Kuomintang. Behind its gates, students ...

November 23, 2024, Saturday

Shipyards in the 19th century anchored Pudong’s path toward industrialization

PUDONG, now renowned for its urban skyline, was once largely farmland, but the seeds of industrialization were sown along its waterfront there more than 150 years ago. It began in the 1840s, when Shanghai’s ...

November 16, 2024, Saturday

The century-old mansion of a shipping magnate stands as tribute to patriotism

A century-old mansion sits somewhat anomalously amid the iconic landscape of skyscrapers in the Lujiazui financial district — a reminder of a bygone era and a symbol of patriotism. Built by industrialist ...

November 9, 2024, Saturday

Double happiness for ballet lovers as Bolshoi and Mariinsky hold the city stage

IT has been a luxurious October for Shanghai’s ballet lovers as the two top Russian ballet companies — the Bolshoi Ballet and the Mariinsky Ballet — were in town at the same time, staging signature performances ...

November 2, 2024, Saturday



 

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