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Explainer: Why is Chinese New Year Called 'Spring Festival'?

Why doesn't everyone call it that, and why is there no Winter Festival or Summer Festival?

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 21 January 2020

Explainer: How May 1 Became International Workers' Day

Let's go back to the 1880s...

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 26 April 2024

Old Shanghai’s glamorous, rockin’ night clubs

This is how they rolled

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 21 April 2015

Shanghai's underwear girl spotted again... but is she a man?

Infamous exhibitionist fuels speculaion...

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 15 December 2014

Explainer: Why You Get 1 RMB Coins in Shanghai But Bills in Beijing

Ever wonder why you always get one yuan, five mao and one mao coins in Shanghai but in Beijing you get bills instead?

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 12 October 2014

35 dead in New Year's stampede on Shanghai Bund

At least 35 revelers trampled to death in NYE stampede.

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 01 January 2015

China's Most Famed Explorers and Adventurers

China is not exactly famed for discovering or settling any new overseas territories, however, the country would never have grown as large and influential as it did without at least a...

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 08 January 2015

Brands of Old Shanghai

The proud remaining labels from early-20th-century China

by Ryan Kilpatrick, 25 February 2015

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