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Never forgetting one’s deep roots

WITH feet in two worlds, 90-year-old Linda Tsao Yang was recently bestowed “Honorary Citizenship” in Shanghai — the city of her birth though not her home for most of the last 70 years. Yang was one of ...

November 11, 2016, Friday

Antiques jostle for space in shikumen room

FOR two decades You Jianrong has been collecting antiques in a quiet, traditional shikumen (stone-gated) house on Shanghai’s Beijing Road W. His showroom is a 15-square-meter tingzijian, or pavilion ...

November 11, 2016, Friday

Retiree recreates local landmarks out of trash

FOR 83-year-old Wu Hairong, a typical day starts at 5:30am, when he gets up to make breakfast for himself and his bedridden wife. After hopping on his bike to buy groceries, he comes back home at around ...

November 4, 2016, Friday

Gergiev and his global vision for Mariinsky

WHEN Valery Gergiev raised his baton at the Shanghai Grand Theater last week for a performance of Russian classical music, it was really a feast for the ears. During his one-week residency in Shanghai, ...

October 28, 2016, Friday

Age is no barrier to play a teenager on stage

With her expressive big black eyes, a shining smile and graceful movement on stage, 40-year-old Diana Vishneva can still drive her audiences to tears....

October 28, 2016, Friday

Spoonhunt: An app that digs out hidden gems in restaurants

BILINGUAL menus are not hard to come by but some of the gems of local delicacies are hidden in restaurants without English menus. Emma Hsu and Adam Liu, young expats from Canada and the United States, ...

October 28, 2016, Friday

Red Arrows fly in to conquer hearts in China

AS a small boy, Mike Ling would watch the Red Arrows, eyes bulging, perform every year near his home at London’s Biggin Hill. His biggest dream was to one day fly as part of Great Britain’s Royal Air ...

October 28, 2016, Friday

Master architect seeks to save iconic villages

ON the outskirts of Hangzhou, the Fuchun River snakes through foothills, as it has done for thousands of years. The natural surroundings evoked the beauty of ancient landscapes until urban development ...

October 21, 2016, Friday

Adman Tim Delaney’s transformative thinking

LEGENDARY British adman Tim Delaney is renowned around the world as a campaign creative genius. Last week, he shared his expertise in Shanghai, speaking at an event on “What is Transformative Thinking?” Chances ...

October 21, 2016, Friday

A maestro’s masterful musical interpretations

SHANGHAI audiences love Andras Schiff. When the 63-year-old British pianist first visited Shanghai in 2013, the audience demanded no less than 10 encores. On his second visit, an equally enthusiastic ...

October 21, 2016, Friday