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'Culture Shock' in Shanghai

Lechuan Huang — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 08:04:40 +0000

I am from Nanjing, and just got to Shanghai for work. The school I'm working at is quite a nice place, with friendly teachers and, you bet, lovely children. However, the school is situated a bit too deep into Pudong New Area (I would like to call it District, but bus broadcast has it the odd way...), and I have to endure long time of public transportation to get to the downtown area, where, according to a foreign colleague of mine, is not the 'real' Shanghai :P

Public transportation in the big Chinese cities are almost always busy, and I feel rather safe pushing this prejudice over to the IfGoGo readership. The so-called shock came to me when I witnessed three incidents in a row: not offering seats to the old, skipping the queue, and not offering seats to a woman with her baby. For sure, it is just coincidence that I met such incidences at this high frequency, and in Shanghai there are indeed many good-ordered taxi queues, but this day in Shanghai still makes me uncomfortable. Skipping the queue is quite common in China (I saw the taxi queues first so this still comes as a shock); not offering seats to the needed is against basic Chinese culture and morality... But I may be too quick to condemn these people, or Shanghai in general. Even if these are all acceptable behaviour in Shanghai, it might just be evolution of the ethics, and I am a bit slow to catch up. However, I'd rather believe that today's incidents are lone cases, and Shanghai is still as beautiful as she should be.

Some great photos of Shanghai in 1980s

Aw Guo — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 04:45:56 +0000

Today I found some photos of Shanghai in 1980s via a Chinese blogger feiii. The group of classic photos really reminds me of my childhood in Wuhan, Hubei. The buses were just like those in the photos and so were the crowd…

Airplane Saved

Yuanxi Chen — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:06:19 +0000

The airplane Shanghai Airlines FM9105 met with strong airstream on the air of Tianjin when it was on the way to Beijing. It took off from Shanghai and was in emergency 3 hours ago (05:20 July 6th Beijing time). More than 20 people got injured and no death report. After the plane emergency landed in Tianjin, casualities were sent to hospital immediatelly.

An airhostress hurted badly and was in a dangerous situation.

Hi, this is William from Shanghai

Yuanxi Chen — Sat, 24 May 2008 04:35:43 +0000

Hi, all,

: )

This is William(Hunz) from Shanghai. Born in Quanzhou, a lovely city near Xiamen. Now a junior student of Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade, major in law. Well, the school is located in a university town where seven different universities settled. Around a number of 70, 000 students here.

Personally, Rock 'n' Roll music, table tennis, soccer and reading are what I love. I've read a lot of a prose-poems and morden master pieces. Doctor Lin Yutang is the composer I admire. He set the model for us that man should both hold the tradition and master foreign knowledge. I believe that it's meaningful to promote East-West exchanges. Communication must be the best way for us to get rid of misunderstanding.

Huh, I am probably one of the youngest guyz here, gonna take every chance to learn from you gentlemen and ladies.

You wrote great posts here.

:-)

On this blog, I would like to share some ideas. As I am living in the very 1st and biggest University Town of China, voice of Chinese university students can be heard directly, further posts would be written on these parts. I really hope we can helpthe world to understand China, both the body and mind of China.

Looking forward to talking and writing with you.