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A woman visitor looks at a pornographic clay of early 19th century at the Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture in Shanghai.

Sex in Shanghai? The Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture

* * * Shanghai would seem the perfect home for a sex museum given a colonial history that at its ...

China AFP/Benjamin Morgan

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Chinese Filmmaker Jia Zhangke

Once-banned, director Jia Zhangke seeks wider audience in China...

China AFP/D'Arcy Doran

Tony Leung and and Wei Tang in Lust, Caution

Film Review: Lust, Caution

Ang Lee steps into the world of film noir with his World War II romantic thriller starring Wei Ta...

China Celeste Heiter

The Home Song Stories promotion poster

Film: The Home Song Stories

The Home Song Stories, an entry to the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, is inspired by the true story o...

Singapore / China Diana Tan

Huaihai Park

An Inside Guide to Shanghai’s Must-Do Activities

Chat with any group of Shanghai experts, and you'll likely hear several different versions of a p...

China Charlotte Walker

Shanghai Triad

Film Review: Shanghai Triad

Beautiful and exotic leading lady Gong Li is the centerpiece of this underworld film noir as seen...

China Celeste Heiter

Grand Hyatt building on a clear day in Pudong

Shanghai Skyline

At the speed of all the construction in Shanghai, the skyline is ever changing. One has to wonder...

China Janet McKelpin

Book Review: The Red Thread by Nicholas Jose

An ambitious undertaking by acclaimed author Nicholas Jose , The Red Thread picks up where the cl...

China Celeste Heiter

Opium Den display in the Shanghai City Museum

Opium had a devastating impact on China just over a hundred years ago. One man tried to stop it b...

China MaryLou Driedger

A really good gentleman caller is every flower girl's dream...

Film Review: Flowers of Shanghai

Based on the novel Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai by Han Pang-ch'ing, Flowers of Shanghai tiptoes in...

China Celeste Heiter

Modern Shanghai style: the Santa Rosso Italian restaurant. Shanghai, China.

Shanghai: Where The Past And Future Collide

In Shanghai, the future is displacing the past so fast that there is hardly any present...

China Graham Simmons

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Shanghai's tallest building plan could be upstaged by New York

Shanghai, Feb 9, 2003 - In the global competition to erect the world's tallest building, it seems...

China AFP/Benjamin Morgan

Beggar's Chicken

Recipe: Beggar's Chicken

This dish is my own variation on a classic Shanghai dish with a baking technique that involves wr...

China Celeste Heiter

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Shanghai World Financial Centre

China's tallest tower aims to take Shanghai higher

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1930s-style kitchen, in the new "Open House" museum at Xintiandi, Shanghai.

Xintiandi spells "shanghai"

Shanghai's Xintiandi entertainment district is famous for its restaurants and bars in Shikumen ho...

China Graham Simmons

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Landmark Shanghai hotel gets modern makeover...

China AFP/D'Arcy Doran

Imperial China Meets Star Trek In Shanghai

You Italian women, spat the angry Chinese man who's touting attempts I'd deflected by pretending ...

China Susan Storm

Two Nights in Shanghai

Three anxious knocks bring me to the door of the shared hostel room. Behind it is the perplexed-l...

China Nolan Webb

Bright Lights, Big Congee

Review of Wei Hui's Shanghai Baby.

China Kenneth Champeon

Shanghai-Style Red Pork

Recipe: Shanghai-Style Pork Stew

Although it's a little time-consuming, this easy recipe yields a tender and tasty pork dish in a ...

China Celeste Heiter

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