Knowledge In the frustrating lack of decently priced English books in Shanghai, I turned to the Shanghai Library in hopes of striking gold. After acquiring a “visitors” pass for the day, I continued to the Foreign Language Reading Room on the 4th floor. An entire floor dedicated to foreign books!!! This was going to be [...]

Here is my short list of Shanghai places that I would recommend to anyone visiting the city. I compiled the list while living in Shanghai from February – November 2009. These are simply the places I like, and think you might want to know about. It is by no means a comprehensive guide to everything [...]

The four of us met up yesterday morning after breakfast to discuss our destination, Fuxing (pronounced “foo-shing”) Island. None of us knew anything about Fuxing Island. Only that it was an island, it showed up on most maps of Shanghai, it appeared to have a road that led to it, and it was pretty far [...]

I have been wanting to go out into the city by foot for a couple weeks now to take photos of every day stuff, and today I finally did. The weather was perfect. Clear skies and about 70˚F. I did cheat a little bit by riding my bike to Fuxing Park, but I figured it [...]