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Walk-in entry to museums a boon for many, but challenges remain

BEGINNING this month, individual visitors no longer need a reservation code to enter Shanghai Museum at the People’s Square, in an extension of the practice first implemented at its east branch in the ...

September 20, 2025, Saturday

In the startup frenzy to develop AI, the elephant in the room is money

NOT long ago, I found myself in a confer­ence room with a group of wide-eyed entrepreneurs, fresh from raising pre-A round of fi­nancing for their AI startup. One of them, a friend, asked me along to ...

September 16, 2025, Tuesday

China anti-desertification drive fuels green growth, common prosperity

TO understand China’s growth potential and strategy, it’s not enough just to calculate how many cars or clothes are produced and sold. A look into the country’s vast desert area is necessary if one is ...

July 8, 2025, Tuesday

Shanghai is unique, and we are all part of it

TAKING pride in being where you were born is often deemed a mark of “provincialism” and, paradoxically, this sentiment characterizes quite a few of the residents born here. But even the most severe critic ...

January 26, 2018, Friday

Public space can improve urban landscape

The challenge of defining and building communicative cities and urban space was a theme that was explored at a forum held in Shanghai this week. The forum, which was held at Sinan Literature House at ...

December 1, 2017, Friday

New parents learn valuable lesson after inviting superstar yue sao into their lives

LIKE many new parents in China, my wife and I decided to hire an ayi to look after our infant son....

February 23, 2016, Tuesday

GDP is out

AN official’s political life now hinges more and more upon environmental issues. Officials will lose face if they rank low on the list of environmental protection. Zhejiang Province has taken the lead ...

July 4, 2014, Friday

Statistics, statistics, and statistics!

Jumping of officials into a river may assuage public fear of the water quality of the river, but such a public stunt cannot withstand closer scrutiny. Ultimately, people believe in statistics. Without ...

July 4, 2014, Friday

No public show

WHAT we really want to see are clean rivers in which people can swim any time, not a clean portion of otherwise polluted rivers. We don’t need a show in so-called “swimmable” rivers. We should make laws ...

July 4, 2014, Friday

Artistic behavior

Jumping of officials into a river is really an artistic behavior, which is probably more obvious than statistics to the general public. If the general public choose to trust officials’ jumping show instead ...

July 4, 2014, Friday



 

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