China Heritage Quarterly, a publication covering recent developments related to China's heritage, has turned its focus onto Shanghai this quarter and now it's all online! Inside, you'll find everything from an expose on 1930s Shanghai wild girl Emily "Mickey" Hahn to the harmonizing of Shanghai's history in recent exhibitions around the world. It'll take a while to work through it, and I recommend that you do, but here are three picks I found exceptionally interesting: more ›

From Tai Kang Lu to M50 and beyond, Shanghai is abuzz with creative parks and hubs. One of the most recent to spring up, 800SHOW, is a one-time steel factory spanning 20,000 sqm in the heart of Jing'an District. This week, we caught up with logon, the architectural firm behind the renovations, to get the inside scoop on 800SHOW and understand this interesting side of Shanghai’s never-ending urban development. more ›

With the Expo approaching, Shanghai is quickly become more and more official, with roads being paved, mandatory uniforms for taxi drivers, and even rules guiding citizens' subway etiquette, just to name a few of the changes. To keep the changes rolling, the names of Shanghai's official top eight scenic spots have been announced by the Shanghai Tourism Administration, selected from over 1500 suggestions from city dwellers. more ›