Around Shanghai: People's Park, ads in taxis, and the architect Robert Fan
- The BBC has a great picture slide show of the “spouse market” in
ZhongshanPeople's Park, where worried parents put their kids' resumes up in hopes of finding them their significant others. [BBC] - Being the good neighbors that we are, Shanghai has donated 50,000 face masks to our Japanese “sister city,” Osaka. Did anyone even know Osaka was our sister city? [Xinhua]
- The USA Pavilion just got their fourth sponsor - YUM Brands (the guys behind Taco Bell and KFC). That means they're probably only $50-some million away from their fund raising goals now! [LA Times]
- The Wall Street Journal is fascinated by those Touchmedia screens in our city's taxis. We wonder how fascinated they'd stay if they had to deal with them as much as we do. [WSJ]
- A reporter goes back to the Xuhui district to see the houses her grandfather, architect Robert Fan, designed before fleeing the country in 1949. [Washington Post]
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