Whether you seek a restored relic of a bygone era or a soaring futuristic skyscraper, the city’s getaways will dazzle.

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city. By Sally Wen Mao Read Your Way ...

Millions of people across China’s locked-down financial hub of Shanghai have been desperately seeking medical care and basic supplies like food. Parents have been forcibly separated from young ...

The 2,073-foot-tall Shanghai Tower, the world's second-tallest building, opens this year. More than just a skyscraper, it's a symbol of Shanghai's... Shanghai Tower: A Crown For The City's Futuristic ...

When it comes to China’s signature zero-Covid health policy, the country’s leaders have made it clear: Shanghai is too big to fail. The city, which is grappling with a record number of daily Covid ...

The former French Concession in Shanghai, also known as Hengfu, short for Hengshan Road and Fuxing Road, is an iconic part of the modern city as well as its past. “The former French Concession is one ...

Vacationing in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan last week, I received the question people inevitably ask when they hear I live in China: Do the Chinese really eat dogs? The answer to this question — as ...

Barricades, panic buying and empty streets are some scenes from Shanghai as China’s most populous city imposed a new lockdown. Offices and factories—including Tesla’s—were affected by China’s measures ...

An exhibit in New York explores a little-known chapter of World War II. Where did 20,000 Jews hide from the Holocaust? In Shanghai In the late 1930s, as the Nazis stepped up their persecution of ...

CHINA’S urbanisation is a marvel. The population of its cities has quintupled over the past 40 years, reaching 813m. By 2030 roughly one in five of the world’s city-dwellers will be Chinese. But this ...

Editor’s note: Waste sorting became mandatory for households in Shanghai in the summer of 2019. The Paper recently looked back at the city’s long history of waste management, tracing the evolution in ...