Shanghai’s Future Real Estate Developers?
The boys were on a mission. Focused and resolute, the objective was to build a faux irrigation ditch to channel the trickling stream of water cutting across the…
黄浦江
Farming in the city
How much land does a man need? Leo Tolstoy had posed and answered the question in a 1886 short story about a greedy Russian peasant Pakhom, intent on…
Sunrise on the Bund
It was one of those moments that occur to the (semi) conscious mind at 430am. Dark blue hues were giving way to light, inch by inch. A lone…
The Love of Kite-flying Part Two
It was a most random yet lovely sight. Spread out over a large field, with tall incinerators serving as a backdrop and passing ships along the Huangpu River…
The red bag (and buying a 2-wheeler)
Shanghai is a dense enough city that getting around can be quite a breeze. The city has an ever expanding metro system which carries 3 million people each day, we’re…
The Singing Ship
This old and rusting ship was moored off the Pudong side of the Huangpu River (黄浦江) by Zhangyang Harbour (张扬码头), but is no longer there. Nobody was ever…
Making his way home
I was running for the ferry when I came up alongside an old man. He was blind so a kind dockhand helped him on board. As we bobbed…