Chinese convesation tag:shanghai

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Hi everyone,

I will be moving to Shanghai on a six-month work assignment this summer. My company has provided me with a specific budget to cover my rent and I'm trying to see if it's "enough". I plan to rent a one-bedroom apartment in the downtown area. Any ideas around average rent and suggestions about best places to live? Ideally I would like to live near my office, which is in Puxi. Thanks!

OJ

posted by orjohnston June 26, 2008

Shanghai : must do.., dont miss.., accommodation tips...

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Hello everybody...

I went through many hard weeks of waiting and hoping...but finally:

I got my this years work visa for Tibet!!! ...and will go back to Westtibet to restore a monastery. The most beautyful monastery i know!!! Will leave to Lhasa next week! I am so happy!!!

In the first week of September, on my way back, I will have some days stop over holydays in Shanghai!

I want to ask all of you who know Shanghai:

Any tips what I should not miss to visit, eat, see, buy... in and around Shanghai?

Anybody who knows a good, not to expensive hotel or hostel or guesthouse...(I dont need luxury) in the city?

Thanks for any hint!

Gesang

posted by gesang June 27, 2008

Shanghai

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Who has some advice related to travel to Shanghai?

Must see places? e.g.Huangpu River and the Bund, Jade Buddha Temple, Nanjing Road, Oriental Pearl TV Tower, Yuyuan Garden, Xin Tian Di and Zhujiajiao.Comments on these places?

Places to avoid?

Good value places to stay?

Good restaurants?

etc.

posted by bababardwan October 5, 2008

Painting "Billy" in Shanghai

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This site has some interesting videos giving insights into the lives of people all over the globe.

This is just one of them: http://www.metropolistv.nl/?p=380&lang=en

posted by Joachim October 6, 2008

A most amazing Map of Shanghai (Simcity Style)

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This is a Chinese website that has an interactive map of Shanghai. Every building is displayed in the most amazing detail. My big question is why isn't ChinesePOD listed in the search box???? I am very curious!!! Go here...

http://sh.edushi.com/

posted by vann0000 October 8, 2008

Guide to Shanghai / Wealth distribution in China

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After coming back from China, I decided to edit a video for all the good time spent and friends I made at Fudan University. My advice if you have the opportunity to go to China, don't stay with foreigners, practice with the locals. I got the chance to visit most part of Shanghai and around. And the best: Jenny, Amber and Ken welcomed me at Praxis.

This video includes most touristic places of Shanghai (transrapid,xindianti, hangpu, pudong,Jinmao) and of its fantastic development. Maybe Shanghai is already ready for Expo 2010.

For the 2nd video I thought the frequency of visits wasn't good enough, so I just made subtle changes. With the key words (cute girls) I hope it will attract more visits. Youtube annotations let you insert notes without hard printing on your film.

I hope you like them.

Raymond Chenon

Of course I only included the good sides of Shanghai. One thing intrigues me in China, while most Multinationals manufacture goods, the price is not on parity for the market. Some adopt a local market strategy like Coca-cola and McDonald. While Nike products,cell phones,computers(Lenovo is Chinese after all ) cost as much as in Europe. Who can afford the latter ?

China is very interesting place right now: there is a segment of the Chinese society that is extremely rich. For example, next to our Shanghai office is the Ferrari dealership and the Bentley dealership. They would even let me sit in the cars. :-P Buicks in Shanghai sell for twice the price they do in Detroit.

There is another part of China that is extremely poor. To see this part of China, you need to get out of the cities into the farmlands. They still use donkey carts and a lot (and I mean a lot) of human labor to farm their lands. You will see some small tractors but most is still human labor.

Quite frankly, this dichotomy is a problem that China will have to address in future years. They will need the farms; but if the farmers can not produce the wealth that they can get in the cities, there will be a migration toward the cities. How China handles this problem will be interesting... In many ways, China is a grand experiment in developing a modern society. The distribution of wealth issues are not easy anywhere in the world and can produce great social discord.

Thanks to wolson, we discussed this on Dear Amber: "One child policy and taking trains". Now here is the topic

posted by raymondc March 21, 2009

Shanghai 2020 is the largest city scale model in the world

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s far as scale models go, I'm not sure you'll ever find out quite as impressive as this absolutely enormous one depicting what Shanghai is supposed to look like in 2020. At over 1,000 square feet, it shows every single building in China's most populated city, or at least every single building planned.

It's on the third floor of the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum, and it is in fact the largest scale model of a city in the world. The attention to detail is absolutely astounding. And really, while it would be a shame to damage such amazing work, boy would I ever love to romp Godzilla-style through this thing. Maybe someday.

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/05/gargantuan-scale-model-of-shanghai-in-2020/

posted by vann0000 December 3, 2008

Some 照片 of my trip to 上海 last month and visit to ChinesePod...err..Praxis

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Hi all,

Long time no see, long time no post. In case you didn't see my post on the new Terrorist lesson, just thought I would share my pictures I took when visiting ChinesePod last month... pretty much the usual, general pictures, but did like the new place. Unfortunately I didn't get my butt in gear and make ChinesePod my first stop on my 5 day stay, otherwise I would have seen Jenny and maybe had been able to grab lunch with a few. But alas I left it until the end, but glad I got to see John and Ken (ooh...good rhyme). Here is a link to the pics:

http://picasaweb.google.com/richmahn/2008120410_Shanghai</a>

posted by rich January 15, 2009

Filipino Restaurants in Shanghai?

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I'm gonna be in Shanghai for a few days next month, and I want to take my friend to a Filipino place. Do you guys know of any places?

posted by nickcripps July 23, 2009

Hot in Mandarin Learning

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Miracle Mandarin Language School, Shanghai College of International Education, from year 2004, is a well established Chinese language school based in Shanghai. http://www.miraclemandarin.com/

With a team of Chinese Language teaching experts, the school specialize in Teaching Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language to expatriates and international students.

The school offers 3 to 6 months short term intensive Chinese program, 1 month crash course, long term Chinese program, total immersion Chinese program, summer program and corporate language program.

The school provides legal documents for qualified student to get student visa.

Miracle Mandarin School is a truly International school, where her students come from every corner of the world. About 40% of Miracle Mandarin School students are Europeans, 30% American, 15% Australian, 10% are Asian and the remaining 5% are from other countries

Miracle Mandarin has 4 convenient locations in downtown Shanghai.

Xuhui Campus: 1195 Middle Fuxing road, Tel: (86 21) 5466 5585

Pudong Campus: Rm504, Building II, 98 Rushan Road Tel: 5888 8755

Jing An Campus: Rm2111, 319 Changde road, Tel: (86 21) 6247 6388

Hongqiao Campus: Rm1103, 59 South Shuicheng road Tel:6219 8030

Thank you for your attention!

posted by mmpudong504 August 11, 2009

Hot in Mandarin Learning

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Miracle Mandarin Language School, Shanghai College of International Education, from year 2004, is a well established Chinese language school based in Shanghai. http://www.miraclemandarin.com/

With a team of Chinese Language teaching experts, the school specialize in Teaching Mandarin Chinese as a foreign language to expatriates and international students.

The school offers 3 to 6 months short term intensive Chinese program, 1 month crash course, long term Chinese program, total immersion Chinese program, summer program and corporate language program.

The school provides legal documents for qualified student to get student visa.

Miracle Mandarin School is a truly International school, where her students come from every corner of the world. About 40% of Miracle Mandarin School students are Europeans, 30% American, 15% Australian, 10% are Asian and the remaining 5% are from other countries.