Dispatches from beyond the Great Firewall
That's right. Take your pick Shanghai. Life in urban China, especially in Shanghai, depicts two growing phenomena: those who are caught living on top of each other in small "snail homes," or those with a mortgage that promises to keep them shackled for decades to come. My search to paint the perfect picture of these …
Continue reading Shanghai: ‘Snail Homes’ and ‘Mortgage Slaves’
With a new year well on its way, I suppose its time - as that is what we are made to believe - to reflect upon the salient features of the past 12 months I've spent in Shanghai. My mind, without a doubt, instinctually drifts to memories of moments commuting to and from People's Square: the …
Larry Flax, the co-founder of California Pizza Kitchen (CPK), paid a visit to Shanghai earlier this month to open up his first company-owned restaurant in mainland China. I met with him at the Peninsula Hotel on the Bund (where I swear even the air smells expensive) for CNNGo (click here to read the post) to discuss …
Earlier this week, I published a piece on the solar water heater market in China for CNNGo. This story had me traveling to Wuzhen, one of the water villages outside of Shanghai, to cover the contrasting shades of green in China: sustainable technology and environmental degradation. While peeping through the alleyways behind the touristy lanes …
After researching this piece, I have since stopped eating kebab skewers in Shanghai or any other street meat of similar variety. If you would like to continue blissfully gnawing down street food in China, I suggest you read this at your own discretion. --- The division of life styles that continues to swing the pendulum …
Justin Calderón 