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Local yet very global: inside Shanghai’s viral ‘Eastern omelet’ stand
Shanghai mornings often begin with the smell of food drifting out of side streets. One such street is Dingxing Road, a quiet lane barely a few hundred meters long in downtown Huangpu District, where ...
Zhu Qing | March 5, 2026, Thursday
Embryo genetic screening is commercial, and for the rich
BREEDING better babies, which was once left to chance, is now becoming a business that scores, prices and optimizes what a birth may produce. In California’s Silicon Valley, embryo screening is going ...
Tan Weiyun | March 3, 2026, Tuesday
Nostalgia pays: How longing for past creates spiritual value and serious cash
WHEN Irish trio Westlife performed their iconic hit “My Love” at the 2026 CCTV Spring Festival Gala, their soaring harmonies resonated with collective nostalgia across China, propelling the hashtag #Westlife’sVocalsTakeUsBackInTime ...
Yang Meiping and Wan Lixin | March 3, 2026, Tuesday
With Shanghai’s expanding green space, a city in nature takes shape
AS I rambled through a newly opened park in Shanghai, featuring dense forests and winding waterways, on a chilly afternoon this month, a lightly dressed old man caught my attention as he ran in small ...
Wang Yong | February 28, 2026, Saturday
The 30-year evolution of Yuyuan’s lantern show
OF all the photo ops a UK Prime Minister could stage in Shanghai, Keir Starmer chose… pastry. Butterfly pastry, to be precise... box in hand, smile locked, snapped mid-purchase at Lu Bo Lang in Yuyuan ...
Zhu Yile | February 26, 2026, Thursday
YANGJINGBANG: The story of the creek
YANGJINGBANG was a tributary of the Huangpu River, with its Pudong section called East Yangjingbang and Puxi section called West Yangjingbang. Yangjingbang usually refers to the part on the west of the ...
February 24, 2026, Tuesday
YANGJINGBANG:The Story of Pidgin English
AFTER the Opium War, Yangjingbang’s riverfront teemed with Chinese and foreign traders. Mutual unintelligibility spawned “Yangjingbang English”: Chinese syntax with English words. The place-name soon ...
February 24, 2026, Tuesday
How did old-time Shanghainese learn ‘Yangjingbang English?’
ANNOTATED English Book After the 1851 Taiping Rebellion, Ningbo traders dominated Shanghai’s concessions. They printed English Pronunciation with Ningbo Dialect Annotations in 1860, which became an important ...
February 24, 2026, Tuesday
CITYWALK ALONG YANGJINGBANG
1. Gutzlaff Signal Tower 1 Zhongshan Rd E2 First built in 1883, it was one of the earliest signal towers in the Asia-Pacific region. In 1907, its aging wooden structure was replaced with a 50m reinforced-concrete ...
February 24, 2026, Tuesday
The teacher you’ve been waiting for: Emma Leaning on writing for impact
EMMA Leaning has mastered what most writers spend careers chasing: authentic communication that connects with people. For half a decade, her column “The Oyster Pail” has been one of Shanghai Daily’s most ...
February 12, 2026, Thursday
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