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EDITOR’S NOTE
C
reativity has long been recognized as a source of
delight, but in today’s world of competitive
innovation it has become, in addition, something
amounting almost to a duty. Schools, in particular, face
unprecedented demands to get creative. How reasonable or
welcome is this challenge? The current issue of Urban
Family addresses itself to the question.
Urban Family is determined to exhibit some creativity of
its own. From this issue, the magazine is enlivened by two
new regular columns. Peggy Rosen’s Shanghai Ed. explores
the city’s educational opportunities and issues, whilst
Monika Lin’s Art@Home applies the lessons of art history
in a domestic setting.
From the beginning of September, the introduction of
Urban Family Online will add a new dimension to our
activities (visit us at www.urbanfamily.com). Your
comments, questions, criticisms, and contributions to
discussion, on any aspect of our print or digital coverage,
are enthusiastically welcomed. Please contact us on the
forum there, or by email to urbanfamily@urbanatomy.
com.
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EDUCATION 教育
The Creativity
Conundrum
By Nick Land
I
n the early 1970s, the world’s
most economically developed
countries began to understand
themselves as ‘post-industrial
societies’. This was a term
introduced into general
conversation by the American
sociologist Daniel Bell, who
popularized it through his
influential book The Coming of
Post-Industrial Society (1973). Bell’s
claim was based upon the declining
significance of the manufacturing
sector within the American
economy, eclipsed by the rise of the
services or ‘tertiary’ sector. He
argued that the class-structure,
politics, and culture that had been
developed by industrialization were
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being replaced by new social groups
and themes. In particular, the role of
knowledge as a factor of production
was being increasingly emphasized,
within an “information-based
economy” and “information
society.”
Even industrial technologies
reinforced these social trends. By the
late 20th century, the explosive
development of computerized
telecommunication systems was
propelling the word ‘information’ to
even greater prominence. The
future, it seemed, would swallow
not only society, but even nature
itself, in a supernova of information.
It was possible to imagine that
nothing else really mattered.
Yet, with the dawn of the new
millennium, there came a gradually
spreading realization that Bell’s
‘white-collar’ occupations would, in
many cases, be the most easily
substituted by the new information
technologies. After all, an
information processing job stands
in more-or-less direct competition
with an information processing
machine. Any ‘knowledge worker’
engaged in routine activity would
come to be directly threatened by
the prospect of technological
replacement, challenged to change,
and to produce something new.
From the perspective of any human
individual, group, or society trying
to find its way in the rising,
information drenched world, it was
novelty, rather than knowledge, that
mattered most. With that
realization, another word was
launched into dramatic ascent:
creativity.
‘Creativity’ is a concept of entirely
genuine and massive significance,
but it is also the most heavilytrafficked buzz-word of our age.
Especially in advanced
metropolitan centers, ‘creative’ can
appear as an indispensable
adjective, required – and even
sufficient – for the justification of
any social undertaking. A clamor of
‘creative solutions’ is announced by
‘creative businesses’ in ‘creative
industries’, perhaps based in
‘creative clusters’ or ‘creative hubs’
and serviced, of course (post-Bell),
by a ‘creative class’. The idea of the
creative class is associated above all
with Richard Florida, whose The
Rise of the Creative Class (2002) has
served as a manifesto for the
deliberate social promotion of
creativity in its economic
application, especially as a policy
tool for the vitalization of cities.
“Human creativity is the ultimate
economic resource,” Florida argues.
This striking formula epitomizes
the leading spirit of our age.
Florida’s work can be seen as
providing policy advice to
governments, principally at the
municipal level, on how to attract a
‘creative’ population to the urban
areas under their administration.
Drawing such people it is argued
(and widely accepted) is the key to
urban flourishing. Yet for
governments at a higher level, who
are often equally persuaded by the
creative agenda, magnetism is not
enough. Since there is no obvious
overall benefit to be gained from
redistributing a nation’s creative
class amongst its various urban
centers, the problem of creativity
changes shape. For national
governments the question becomes:
How can the total supply of creative
people be expanded? Posed in this
way, it resonates strongly with the
concerns of educators.
As the social demand for creativity
in education becomes increasingly
vociferous, aligning parents,
businesses, and governments in the
cause, the inherent complexities of
this demand – even its
contradictions – have become
starkly evident. Insofar as creativity
is a kind of learning, it is a peculiar
kind, one that seems to run counter
to the idea of being taught, of being
rigorously evaluated, and perhaps
“Human
creativity is
the ultimate
economic
resource”
even of being one. Furthermore, a
consistent theme running through
much of the research into education
and creativity is that creative
students, and creative behaviors, are
often perceived by teachers as
difficult, disruptive, and
undisciplined. The underlying
reasons for this are quite easy to
identify.
Richard Florida
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EDUCATION 教育
The Creative
Society
T
he upsurge of interest in
creativity as a general solution
to social ills corresponds to a type
of humility. It accompanies the
recognition, amongst administrators,
business people, educators, and
others, that something different
comes next, and that we really have
no idea what it will be. Rather than
seeking to program the future,
a welcome mat is laid out for it.
Creativity is invited in, along with the
unknown tomorrow it brings.
The appeal of Richard Florida’s work,
as exemplified by his books The Rise
of the Creative Class, and Cities and
the Creative Class, is that he makes
this invitation socially precise. The
unknowable ‘X’, the big new thing,
will emerge from an identifiable
group of people, he suggests, and
even if we cannot predict what these
people will do, we can at least predict
what they will like (and be like). This
means that they can be attracted.
Municipal leaders have eagerly seized
upon Florida’s recommendations to
transform their cities into the tolerant,
stimulating, ‘hip’ and ‘happening’
places that the creative class find
magnetic. Of course, as should be
expected of any class theory, heated
controversy swirls around the analysis,
ignited by its aura of bohemian elitism.
In any case, the question of creativity
looks set to overspill the boundary of
the ‘creative class’ as disconcerting
change becomes an ever more
comprehensive social condition. Cathy
Davidson, author of Now You See It:
How Technology and Brain Science Will
Transform Schools and Business for the
21st Century, predicts that two-thirds
of grade school students will work in
jobs that don’t yet exist. An inflexible
or excessively conservative education
could easily equip its students
with an obsolescent system of
expectations. Propelled into a future
whose shape we cannot see, but one
that impresses us forcibly with its
strangeness, creativity can no longer
be dismissed as an extravagance or
indulgence. It is something much
closer to a matter of sheer survival.
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Yet being able to measure
creativity does not imply
an ability to teach or
engender it, whether at
the level of the individual
educator, the school, or
the wider society
Although definitions of creativity
can be elaborate, often exceedingly
so, a simple distinction between
‘convergent’ and ‘divergent’
thinking suffices to capture many of
the essentials. Convergent thinking
tends towards a single, correct
solution. Beginning from a
confusion of distracting
possibilities, it proceeds through
systematic elimination until
arriving at the sole acceptable
conclusion. By doing so, it supports
agreement between students, with
teachers, and in accordance with the
consolidated knowledge of the
wider society. Understanding that
‘2+2’ can only equal ‘4’ is a modest
step towards social and cultural
integration. It is also, conveniently,
precisely examinable, and thus
measurable. Whether a lesson in
convergence of this type has been
successfully taught is perfectly clear.
Divergent thinking, in sharp
contrast, throws teaching and
examination into perplexity.
Consider what would be involved if,
rather than asking: “What does two
plus two equal?” the question was
turned around, to become: “What
equals four?” Rather than restricting
possibilities, and requiring
convergence upon the correct
answer, the question now stimulates
divergence, and the multiplication of
possibilities. The answer “2+2”
remains correct, of course, as does
“1+3” and “0+4”, but also “5+ -1”,
half of 8, the square root of 16, or the
first compound number. Possibilities
multiply into the infinite, even
before extending beyond pure
arithmetic, through geometry, and
outwards to encompass examples
such as the legs of a quadruped, or
the letters of the tetragrammaton.
There is no limit to the range and
number of answers, and as thinking
diverges through the ramification of
possibilities, it departs ever more
markedly from uniformity, becomes
ever more original, and ceases to
represent anything that could have
been straightforwardly taught. It is
no wonder that education systems,
and educators, find such situations
comparatively problematic. What
does it even mean to get such
thinking right?
Measuring creativity, or
quantitatively assessing it according
to uniform standards, might seem
to be a hopelessly paradoxical – and
thus simply hopeless – undertaking.
Such despair is unwarranted,
however. Whatever the difficulties
involved in measuring divergent or
creative thinking, the task cannot be
blithely dismissed as
straightforwardly impossible. The
evidence for that was provided by
psychometric researcher Ellis Paul
Torrance, as early as the mid-1960s,
through the persuasive
demonstration of a test that
convincingly captures the basic
features of such thought.
The Torrance Test of Creative
Thinking (Torrance, 1966), or
TTCT, has undergone a number of
revisions over the decades, but even
its original formulation set out clear
principles for the measurement of
creativity. It divides creativity (or
‘divergent thinking production’)
into four quantifiable components:
the number of relevant ideas
generated, or fluency; the range of
variation between the ideas, or
flexibility; the (statistical)
unexpectedness of the ideas, or
originality; and the development of
the ideas, or elaboration. The
quantitative definition of each
component allows it to be
objectively (i.e. ‘convergently!)
measured. By making creativity
rigorously testable, and thus
tractable to scientific evaluation, the
TTCT provided not only an
academic research tool, but also a
method of educational appraisal. As
with all educational testing, this
method is potentially double-sided;
examining the creative competence
of individuals on the one hand, and
the success of educational processes
on the other. Since the mid-1960s,
therefore, at least in theory, the
fostering of creativity had become a
measurable educational goal.
A New Approach
C
ommenting on the
educational legacy
inherited from the 19th
century, Ken Robinson
argues:
So the hierarchy is rooted
on two ideas: Number one,
that the most useful subjects
for work are at the top. So
you were probably steered
benignly away from things
at school when you were a
kid, things you liked, on the
grounds that you would
never get a job doing that. Is
that right? Don’t do music,
you’re not going to be a
musician; don’t do art,
you’re not going to be an
artist. Benign advice —
now, profoundly mistaken.
The whole world is engulfed
in a revolution.
And the second is, academic
ability, which has really
come to dominate our view
of intelligence because the
universities designed the
system in their image. If
you think of it, the whole
system of public education
Yet being able to measure creativity
does not imply an ability to teach or
engender it, whether at the level of
the individual educator, the school,
or the wider society. Still less does it
suggest an acceptance of ‘creative
education’ as a desirable – or even
clearly imaginable – objective.
When introduced rhetorically, and
abstractly, ‘creativity’ sounds like a
good thing to have, but when the
practicalities of a ‘creative approach’
to education are investigated in
detail, passive obstacles and active
objections rapidly accumulate.
Creativity is inherently
troublesome, especially for
institutions that have, as a notinsignificant part of their traditional
around the world is a
protracted process of
university entrance. And
the consequence is that
many highly talented,
brilliant, creative people
think they’re not, because
the thing they were good at
at school wasn’t valued, or
was actually stigmatized.
And I think we can’t afford
to go on that way.
The full transcript of this
TED talk can be found at:
tedconfblog.wordpress.
com/2006/06/sir_ken_robinso/
mandate, a responsibility to
maintain order. The problems it
poses are numerous, and perhaps
even numberless.
One dimension of difficulty can be
illustrated by school science
teaching, whose ‘experiments’ are
often wildly comical in retrospect.
In most cases the results are so
thoroughly pre-programmed that
the language of experimentation
becomes ridiculous in itself, with
pupils surreptitiously whispering to
each other about what the correct
outcome is supposed to be. Since
science, as taught, is a cognitively
convergent, analytical discipline, it
goes without saying that each child
is expected to ‘discover’ the same
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Creativity
meets
Confucius
T
he ‘creative agenda’ can
pose special challenges for
Confucian societies, in which
authoritative educational
traditions are rooted to
unique depths, investing
examinations – in particular –
with an intensity of meaning
that approaches religious
veneration. The legacy of China’s
Imperial Examination System,
when combined with a writing
system that makes extreme
demands for memorization, has
produced an educational culture
that strongly emphasizes rotelearning, relentless testing, a
reverence for literary precedent,
and a minimum of critical
distancing. These features can
encourage the development of
academic habits that – when
observed by other cultures –
appear to venture dangerously
close to sheer plagiarism. The
stigmatization of ‘copying’ that
seems so natural in the West
finds little native support in
the Confucian world. Did not
Confucius even recommend
copying? How else is a model
to be properly respected, or a
lesson learnt?
A demand for creativity,
however, arises spontaneously
in any dynamic society, and
China’s depths of tradition are
matched only by the speed
of its recent development. As
elsewhere in the world, the
country has been thoroughly
infected by the creativity bug,
from top to bottom, even as
parents maintain a stubborn
practical attachment to timetested methods of pedagogy
and examination. Everyone
agrees that education needs to
become more ‘creative’ these
days, at least in principle –
and as long as the required
innovations pose no threat to
the Gaokao performance of their
children.
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Ken Robinson
In its most basic form,
the teacher-pupil
relationship rests upon the
assumption – mutually
acknowledged – that the
teacher knows something
that the pupil doesn’t.
thing. On occasions, however, a
truly unknown element is
introduced by exploding test-tubes,
toppling Bunsen burners, and other
minor calamities. These
experiments, by attaining the
unexpected, have gone dramatically
wrong. The open secret, of course,
is that school science cannot in any
credible way be experimental at all,
but aims instead primarily at
damage limitation, whilst seeking to
provide some vague intuition of
what a real experiment is like.
Science cannot be done in schools,
but only described there, and school
science ‘experiments’ are in fact
precarious little pieces of theatrical
pretence – hence the comedy.
Creativity, however, is strictly
indissociable from experimentation,
its path profusely littered with
mistakes. Ken Robinson describes
the problem with his characteristic
clarity:
What we do know is, if you’re not
prepared to be wrong, you’ll never
come up with anything original. ...
And by the time they get to be
adults, most kids have lost that
capacity. They have become
frightened of being wrong.… [W]
e’re now running national education
systems where mistakes are the worst
thing you can make. And the result
is, we are educating people out of
their creative capacities.
Since creativity tends naturally
towards that which nobody yet
knows, each step it takes is an
implicit challenge to the foundational
principles of educational authority.
In its most basic form, the teacherpupil relationship rests upon the
assumption – mutually
acknowledged – that the teacher
knows something that the pupil
doesn’t. That ‘something’ provides
the substance of the educational
exchange, as the object of learning,
and once the pupil has fully absorbed
it, the relationship is naturally
dissolved. Creativity does not fit
easily into this structure, however
great the willingness to
accommodate it. In this respect,
schools offer an enhanced reflection
of society’s wider creativity
conundrum.
Any society that comes to
recognize, and embrace, its own
historical dynamism, cannot long
resist the lure of creativity.
Everything that it finds most
admirable about itself is
concentrated in creativity,
understood broadly and nontechnically as the production of
valuable novelty. Whilst the
qualification ‘valuable’ might seem
to cast this definition into a morass
of subjectivity and disagreement, in
modern, diverse, highlycommercial societies, ‘value’
typically acquires an economic
form, and thus a basis for objective
assessment. Irrespective of private
tastes, ‘valuable’ innovation can be
recognized as a social fact when it
receives endorsement in the
marketplace, and the surging vogue
for creativity is largely dependent
upon this link to economic success.
When Ken Robinson tells the story
of a ‘problem child’ who became a
successful dance pioneer, he does
not fail to mention that, in doing so,
she became a multi-millionaire.
The question as to whether
creativity is desirable, therefore, is
no conundrum at all, at least in any
society that is not positively
committed to a state of maximum
stasis. Even those with
comparatively little direct concern
for creativity, or perhaps a degree of
aversion to it, want other things, for
which creativity is increasingly seen
as an indispensable requirement,
such as social prosperity, problem
solving capability, and prestige. Of
course we want creativity, and
thanks to disciplined psychometric
research, we even have reasonably
satisfactory tools with which to
measure it. Somewhat less
confidently, we can even set out to
attract – or poach – it. What we do
not know how to do, with any truly
justifiable confidence whatsoever, is
create it.
It should be noted that this last
claim is at least mildly controversial.
There has been no shortage of
suggestions on how to foster
creativity within an educational
context. Numerous institutions and
periodicals base themselves on this
mission. The most common
recommendations fall into three
broad categories:
1. Syllabus revision, in favor of
traditional or even exotic Arts
subjects, in which convergence
upon a single correct solution
has a comparatively low
pedagogical priority.
2. A transformation of teaching
methods, away from
information transfer models,
and towards an ‘inquirydiscovery’ or problem-solving
approach.
3. An acceleration of the
replacement of ‘industrial’
patterns of schooling, which
emphasize punctuality,
obedience, uniformity, and
the toleration of boredom,
with ‘freer’ educational styles
(child-centered, informal, and
experimental).
From the perspective of the school,
and the teacher, all of these
recommendations involve a
voluntary surrender of authority
and control. As we have seen, this is
not remotely accidental. It is related
to another integrating theme: the
usually tacit suggestion that
creativity is something educators
can – in the best cases – allow to
happen, rather than something that
can be strictly inculcated. When a
municipal government encourages
the emergence of a ‘creative cluster’,
as a space in which creativity is
invited to flourish, exactly the same
general truth is in evidence.
Creativity cannot be constructed or
introduced, but only tolerated or
released. For every institution tasked
with its promotion, creativity presents a
single, supremely frustrating problem:
it seems only to come from outside, and
elsewhere.
Within an educational context, parents
often betray a remarkable sensitivity to
this predicament, even if their
understanding is necessarily formulated
in vague and intuitive terms. When
observing educational practices that
have been shifted in a ‘creative’
direction, they not uncommonly
perceive schools as trying to do desirable
things that they might not be able to do,
at the expense of other
things, perhaps less
Online Creativity
desirable, that they
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nevertheless have clearly
demonstrated
competence at. On a
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whole range of topics,
Education and Creativity,
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learning, syllabus
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Richard Florida, website,
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conservative, in part due
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to nebulous but insistent
concerns that creativity
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exceeds the scope of
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realistic educational
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ultimately be no more
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creativity? The answer
is, at the very least, far
foggier.
That is the conundrum, an inherently
stimulating puzzle that provokes
creativity in the institutions which
grapple with it. For adventurous
educational practitioners, however, the
difficulty is often a narrower one: even
when parents are fully persuaded on the
importance of creativity, they are rarely
enthusiastic about experimenting with
their children.
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Steps to Creative
Education
By Matt Kuykendall
experience” while Summers doesn’t offer
up any concrete answers for a curricular
or stylistic change, but rather supplies
what he sees as necessary tweaks from a
economist’s perspective. Both men
understand the role that schools must
play in a society – schools must prepare
students for the economic world and
disseminate the core values of the culture
in which they operate.
S
peaking at the prestigious TED
summit – a who’s who conference
of intelligentsia – education expert
Sir Ken Robinson remarked, “Nobody has
a clue what the world will look like in five
years’ time. And yet we’re meant to be
educating our students for it.”
Though Robinson is perhaps the most
well known education reform advocate,
you would be hard pressed to find anyone
who studies economics or education who
doesn’t agree with Robinson’s sentiments.
To the point, former President of Harvard
University and former Treasury Secretary
under President Obama, Lawrence
Summers wrote recently, “The world is
changing very rapidly…most companies
look nothing like they did 50 years ago.
Think General Motors, At&T, or
Goldman Sachs. Yet education changes
remarkably little.”
This of course begs the question, “How
should we be educating our students?”
O’Connor believes we should focus more
attention on the arts and the “aesthetic
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Though it is true that we do not know
what the future economy of the world
will look and operate like, one thing is for
certain, desirable jobs will necessitate
collaboration. In his discussion of the
future of Higher Education in particular,
Summers writes:
For most people, school is the last time they
will be evaluated on individual effort. One
leading investment bank has a hiring
process in which a candidate must
interview with upward of 60 senior
members of the firm before receiving an
offer. What is the most important attribute
they’re looking for? Not GMAT scores or
college transcripts, but the ability to work
with others.
Proudly, facilitating and teaching the skills
and dispositions necessary to function
productively and cooperatively within a
group context is something that the
American education system does very
well. This approach to education does not
create amazing test-takers, however it does
create learners who are used to
compromise, collaboration, autonomy
and shared responsibility. Skills that are
cross-disciplinary and more valuable than
a great deal of content taught.
The second thing we know for certain
about the future of the world economy is
that it will necessitate insight and
ingenuity. Albert Einstein famously
remarked, “The only thing that interferes
with my learning is education.” If all a
University graduate offers an employer is
computation skills or glorified data
processing, that student’s job will be
replaced by a computer or someone in the
developing world who can do the same job
cheaper. Your child needs to be educated
in a manner that facilitates the
development of ingenuity and creativity.
This is accomplished through explicit
instructional and assessment strategies.
The most famous of these is referred to in
the education world as “authentic
assessment.” Authentic assessment
requires a student, or group of students, to
apply content knowledge to solving a real
world problem. The central philosophy of
authentic assessment is that the best way to
get better at ingenuity is to practice being
ingenious.
imagination. Again, Einstein the most
famous of school rejects, has prescient
words, “Imagination is more important
than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world."
Unfortunately, this type of teaching and
learning can sometimes appear “soft” to
the untrained eye. The core fact remains
however, that schools are tasked with
preparing our children for the future
economy. For jobs that don’t even exist
yet. The only way to prepare someone for
something we cannot imagine is to teach
It seems everyone from revolutionary
physicists to Harvard economists
understand the need for our schools to
teach something more than the three Rs of
yesteryear. It is absolutely essential that
parents understand this fact as well.
Schools do teach content. Of course we do.
But that is not the most important thing
we do. Not even close. The smartest men
and women of then and now understand
the need for our schools to prepare our
children for success in a future that doesn’t
yet exist and an economy that we cannot
even envision. The only way to do this is to
place proficiency of thought, debate,
compassion, self-esteem, ingenuity, and
analysis on the same pedestal as calculus,
chemistry and composition. It’s a
Herculean task no doubt, but that’s why
they pay us the big money.
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Is each bonus
point really
worth at least
six hours of
preparatory slog
and RMB 500?
T
he sun shines, the birds
chirp, and the flowers
bloom. Yes, it’s that time of
the year again. Summer has arrived!
How eagerly it is welcomed by
sixteen-year-olds who have endured
the rigor of their classes and finally
anticipate a life unbounded by
work; walking out of the school gate
into the fresh air, never to look back,
like a free and renewed person. All
the weary nights spent slogging
through homework have paid off,
and life will once again be
revitalized by leisure and sleep…
Yet this leap into liberty takes only
one step forward and ten steps back,
as they are greeted by the cool yet
uncongenial breeze of the airconditioner, located in a corner of a
small SAT Prep room.
A peek inside the life of most if not
all teens entering their junior year
will reveal exactly the same truth.
Statistics show that out of 100
sixteen year olds from the Shanghai
American School, 62 will be taking
an SAT Prep course over the
summer, 7 will self-study, and 31
will not. That's a grand total of 62%
who will be taking an SAT prep
course over the summer, and the
numbers show consistency across
genders (32/50 boys and 30/50 girls
will be taking some sort of summer
SAT prep course).
It is difficult to imagine how much
money parents are willing to pay for
their child to achieve a dazzling
score on the SAT. A normal course
of 15 days at New Pathways, an SAT
prep center in Shanghai, costs
around RMB 15,000 (equivalent to
RMB 1,000 per day). While there
are different options available, some
of which are more intense, more
rigorous, and more expensive
(costing up to RMB 2,000 per day),
the pricing is pretty consistent
throughout the world.
The normal class day is dauntingly
rigorous, maintaining students in
an intensive, undisturbed state of
learning. They start by memorizing
200 vocabulary words in
preparation for a test the following
morning. The rest of the morning is
devoted to practice tests, relieved by
a brief lunch break, and succeeded
by reading and writing classes in the
afternoon. The day ends with a test
review at home, where students
complete the homework allotted to
them. The SAT still stands for
‘Scholastic Aptitude Test’, but it has
declined over the years into an
empty acronym, representing an
ordeal that students can surmount
after 180 hours of preparatory
grind.
A quick look at the format of the
SAT reveals its composition. There
are in total four parts. It starts with
25 minutes of essay writing (it is
recommended that students fill two
pages). The essay is graded on a
scale of 1-6 (with a ‘6’ recognizing
complete mastery and a ‘1’ showing
that you will probably end up
writing a ransom note at some point
in your life). Students are expected
to write with precision and depth
under strenuous circumstances. The
rest of the test is divided into eight
sections, alternating between math,
reading comprehension, and
writing. The writing is scored in
tandem with the essay for a
composite result (maximum of 800)
that goes along with the other
components of the test for the final
tally.
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EDUCATION 教育
SAT prep courses are a big business
today; thousands of companies
make claims about increasing the
ability to improve scores, and
indeed they have impressive
statistics to show that they can. Yet,
is the math and test practice, worth
the small fortune it costs? While
some say that such courses boost
results in each section of the SAT by
at least 100 points, numbers taken
from two studies suggest otherwise.
The National Association of College
Admission Counseling (2009) and
the College Board study (1990s)
concluded that taking a prep course
would, on average, raise the total
score by 30 points. Is each bonus
point really worth at least six hours
of preparatory slog and RMB 500?
The NACAC study revealed that
around a third of selective colleges
stated that a small increase in
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standardized test scores could affect
their admission decision. In fact,
there are a few schools that have
specific test scores set as a cut-off,
where anything under that threshold
would not suffice. So perhaps 30
points could make a crucial
difference between acceptance and
rejection.
Since SAT requirements differ
among universities, students,
depending on the school of their
liking, have a rough target in mind.
This is why the SAT is often seen as
a ‘hurdle’, which students must leap
over to continue their run for a spot
at their desired college. However,
while the SAT certainly does matter
to the most selective, top tier,
colleges, it should also be
understood that modest gains in test
results could be made by pursuing
inexpensive independent or group
study methods.
It needs also to be emphasized that
a good SAT score does not suffice to
secure a spot at the college of one’s
choice. It is only aspect of an
application, and not necessarily the
most important. GPA, teacher
recommendations, and extra
curricular activities can be at least
as relevant. The Stanford Office of
Undergraduate Admissions says
that about 80% of applicants have
the grades and SAT scores for
admission, so it is the mix of
activities, recommendations, and
essays that whittle it down to the
final 9%. Toiling away at an SAT
prep course just to get a 2,400 does
not nearly cut it – it is ultimately the
amalgamation of all the qualities
and aspects of a student that decides
the eventual destination.
Shanghai Ed.
Introducing Shanghai Ed.
by Peggy Rosen
S
hanghai ED is a column about
education and the educational
opportunities that abound in
Shanghai for all members of the family.
What do we mean exactly by ‘education’?
The meanings are endless and have a
myriad of implications. Education
naturally is learning, both as a result and
as a process. It is synonymous with
instruction and the development of
knowledge. To most of us, the instantly
recognized meaning of education is, as
defined by the Random House online
dictionary, the discipline that is concerned
with methods of teaching and learning in
schools or school-like environments.
For the sake of brevity, let’s examine a few
other ways to look at education relative to
our goals in future columns of ‘Shanghai
Ed.’ Education can be preparation,
improvement, a foundation, development,
or training. It can provide information,
enlightenment, experience, cultural
knowledge, open-mindedness,
sophistication, a viewpoint, and even, in
some cases, wisdom. Education is the
action of participating in the profession of
that name. Education is available for
expansion of cultural awareness, knowhow, and above all nurturing. It can even
impart fun, particularly family fun.
Family dynamics are not always the same
from one family to the next, and the levels
of needs reach from infants to teens to
adults, as well as activities including the
whole family. One family may be looking
for information on pre-schools, play
centers or daily care outside of the home.
Another may have an interest in training
for any of the arts, sports, or additional
intellectual pursuits beyond school. Others
may be interested in the many types of
educational institutions available from
K-12 that abound in Shanghai. A family
may have special needs for their child.
Some people in our Urban Family may be
interested in the people in Shanghai that
provide these services. A parent may be
looking for places to expand a hobby or
begin a new one. As for family
‘educational’ outings, there are plenty that
can be fun yet informative and provide a
learning experience. A day at one of the
many museums, a visit to a site that
embodies authentic Chinese culture, a day
at the zoo, or simply enjoying nature either
in a city park or nature area outside of
Shanghai.
It is apparent that there is a thriving world
of experiences for all in Shanghai. In the
coming months Shanghai Ed will be
exploring the many plentiful avenues of
learning that are offered in Shanghai.
We encourage your suggestions, favorites,
and requests. Welcome to Shanghai Ed.
and its endless possibilities. We look
forward to hearing from you.
Please feel free to email us at
urbanfamily@urbanatomy.com, subject
line Shanghai Ed.
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HEALTH 健康
Is your tablet causing more
pain than pleasure?
By Dr. Ryan Pfeifer
I
was very excited about
purchasing an iPad last year. It
was not something I absolutely
needed, but it offered fun options
for movies, web surfing, email, and
other functions . Then, I started to
notice, after using my tablet for a
month or so, that my neck and
upper back were sore. Little did I
realize that my fun new toy was
actually causing me pain – and it
wasn’t just me. Some of my patients
were reporting the same problem. A
new research study is looking
into why.
evaluating neck, shoulder and wrist
positions for health volunteers who
use tablets regularly, to determine
which positions may put people at
increased risk of developing pain.
The volunteers completed simple
tasks with either the iPad 2 or
Motorola Xoom in four different
positions: Lap-Hand, Lap-Case,
Table-Case, and Table-Movie.
Moreover, each tablet was evaluated
using a proprietary case, with low
and high angle viewing settings. In
each position, the angles of head, eye
and tablet position were measured.
In January 2012, a study out of the
Harvard School of Public Health
was published in the journal Work,
The research found that, overall, the
heads and necks of the participants
were in a more severely ‘flexed’
position compared to those typical
for desktop and notebook computer
users. The greatest strain on the
head and neck was noted with
Table-Case and Lap-Case positions,
with the least strain in the TableMovie position. There was
significant variation between the
two cases as well, given the
variability in viewing angles
available with each design.
The issue at the core of this problem
is ergonomics (the study of
equipment use and how to avoid
strain/injury while operating it).
When computers first appeared on
the market, there was an increased
rate of injured workers seeking
treatment for neck, upper back and
wrist pain, usually due to long
hours sitting in front of a computer
that was not in an optimal position.
Nowadays, many companies
institute worksite ergonomic
evaluations, ensuring the computer
monitor is at eye level, good seat
height, use of chair arm rests, and
other ameliorating factors. However,
with the rapid rise in tablet use over
the past few years, the medical
community hasn’t had a chance to
evaluate the ergonomic impact.
Now we are starting to see it. The
problem is that some of the postures
people adopt when using a tablet
can be awkward and lead to
discomfort with prolonged use.
Now, just because I am having a
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little pain doesn’t mean I’m going
to stop using my iPad (and I’m sure
neither will any of you). But
modifications can be made to
reduce pain levels:
• Vary your posture with use every
15 minutes to reduce the time
muscles are kept in a strained
position.
• Use a case that doubles as a
tablet stand, as this will reduce
the need to grip the device and
improve the tablet viewing
angle, keeping the person’s
head in a neutral position and
reducing neck strain.
• If possible, use your tablet on a
table to reduce viewing angles.
As tablets continue to become
more common in the workplace,
ergonomic guidelines for use will
be increasingly important. This way,
we can all continue to enjoy using
our tablets without having to suffer
because of it.
Dr. Pfeifer is Medical Director of the Back
Clinic with IWS, focusing on minimally
invasive, non-surgical management
of neck and back pain. He is seeing
patients full-time in Shanghai (clinics
in Pudong and Puxi) and Guangzhou.
For more information, please visit www.
westernsurg.com.
Now, just
because I
am having
a little pain
doesn’t
mean I’m
going to
stop using
my iPad
(and I’m
sure neither
will any of
you).
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HEALTH 健康
Ancient Chinese Secret to
Modern Medical Marvel
By Evan Pinto
T
hroughout the previous two
millennia, Traditional
Chinese Medicine (TCM),
also known as herbal medicine,
acupuncture and Tuina massage,
has been clinically effective in
treating the conditions most
common for the time. From a
warrior's wounds sustained in a
battle of the Warring States Period
to a child's malnutrition during
famine or drought; from mysterious
epidemics introduced by foreign
traders to the chronic conditions of
present day abundance, TCM has
successfully adapted for a wide
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variety of conditions. Many patients
first ask whether TCM is effective in
treating their specific condition.
Most commonly, the answer is a
resounding “Yes, it can help!”
How can TCM be applied to so
many disorders? It may be because
of the theory in which TCM is
rooted. Many people have
undoubtedly heard of Yin-Yang
theory. But it's not simply a theory
of opposites. It's much more. It is a
descriptive tool for measuring
everything in the universe. For
example, Yin is shade, internal,
below, stillness, while Yang is sunny,
external, above, movement. It is
how TCM practitioners determine
the patient's imbalance and correct
it, leading to a healthy body and
soul. They also use the theory of the
Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth,
Metal and Water) and the Eight
Principles of diagnosis (Internal –
External; Deficiency – Excess;
Cold – Heat; Yin – Yang) to
characterize the patient’s condition.
These three constructs combine to
form the basis of TCM diagnosis.
Because TCM is rooted in theory it
can be utilized in any situation, at
any time, in any circumstance.
The Warring States Period (475–
221 BC) was especially violent and
brutal, not only for the warriors
but also the civilian public. Food
was scarce. Emotions ran high.
Grief was omnipresent. The people
were susceptible to deficient
conditions such as fatigue,
malnutrition, anemia, influenza,
poor digestion, and diarrhea.
These conditions were largely
caused by the invasion of the cold
evil pathogen into their weak,
deficient bodies. TCM treatments
at the time were designed to
balance out this excess cold evil by
warming the body with medicinal
herbs and warming foods such as
chili pepper, ginger, and beef.
Acupuncture techniques that
expelled the cold evil and helped
boost the immune system were
perfected. TCM evaluated the
prevalent conditions for that time
and properly adapted to treat
them.
Centuries later, the Silk Road (circa
1400s) was a boom for
international trade and cross
cultural exploration. But it also
brought germs across the borders
and caused medical pathologies
that were previously unknown to
China. Despite the valiant efforts
of doctors, many people did not
escape unscathed from the
invasion of the evil heat pathogen.
Unlike the cold natured conditions
of the Warring States Period, the
Silk Road brought many
pathologies that were significantly
more virulent and infectious. The
doctors of the time had to quickly
re-evaluate their approaches and
techniques and devise new
treatments for these new
conditions. The Wen Bing (hot
disease) diagnosis and treatment
treatise developed during this time.
In the 21st century, China has
developed into a country with both
abundance and scarcity.
Thankfully, TCM has a long history
of treating both excess and
deficiency. Modern conditions like
cancer, diabetes type II, ADHD,
addiction and recovery are deficient
conditions due to excess – in other
words, a Yin deficiency from too
much Yang evil. TCM
is vitally important in winning the
In the 21st
treats these conditions
war against cancer.
century,
alongside the Western
medical techniques that
Currently, many clinical trials and
China has
have proven effective. An scientific studies have proven the
integrative East-West
efficacy of TCM. Of course some
developed
approach can be a better
people will still believe in the placebo
into a
way to confront and
effect of TCM and doubt its actual
battle these
efficiency. But if they suspend
country
contemporary
judgment prior to first hand
pathologies. Bioinvestigation they may discover that
with both
medicine has advanced
TCM is not a faith-based medicine. It
abundance greatly in its short 150 does not matter whether one believes
history. But the side
in TCM, it will still work. More than
and scarcity. year
effects are sometimes
2,000 years of clinical proof exists and
than the disease.
is available for perusal. TCM is rooted
Thankfully, worse
For example, many
in the ancient theories of Yin-Yang,
TCM has a cancer patients feel worse Five Elements, and Eight Principles. It
chemotherapy
has adapted to every situation and
long history during
even though it may
pathology during its long existence. It
possibly
cure
them.
TCM
seamlessly integrates itself into
of treating can help mitigate the
Western medicine treatments and
both
nausea and fatigue
even enhances them by reducing the
associated with cancer
effects. The two medical
excess and treatments. In addition, side
approaches when put together are
addresses the
truly a marvel of modern medicine.
deficiency. TCM
emotional frontier so
often ignored by bio-medicine. TCM
can help relax the mind, subdue the
worry and fear of an uncertain future,
and make room for optimism and
hope which many studies have shown
Evan Pinto, is a Doctor of Traditional
Medicine at Body & Soul – Medical Clinics
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HEALTH 健康
Our Health
Some Facts about
Helicobacter pylori
By Saeid Mirafzali
A
s a practicing physician, I
frequently encounter questions
from my patients regarding
Helicobacter pylori (H.P.). Here are
answers to some common questions.
What is Helicobacter pylori?
Helicobacter pylori is the most common
chronic bacterial infection in humans. It is
a spiral shaped bacterium that commonly
lives in the stomach and duodenum (the
section of the intestine just below the
stomach). Because the stomach is bathed
in digestive juices such as hydrochloric
acid, it was once assumed that it is free of
bacteria or viruses. The discovery of H.P.
changed that. It lives sheltered in the thick
layer of mucus that lines and protects the
stomach from the harsh environment
created by its own gastric juices. Since
H.P.’s discovery in 1982, it has been
implicated as one of the most common
causes of gastritis (inflammation of the
stomach), stomach and duodenal ulcers,
and gastric cancer.
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How is H.P. transmitted?
H.P. is usually acquired in childhood. Its
prevalence is strongly correlated with bad
hygiene and lower socioeconomic
conditions. Most researchers believe H.P.
is primarily transmitted orally within
families via food and water contaminated
with fecal matter as well as through
contact with vomit or saliva of an infected
person.
How common is H.P. infection in
humans?
H.P. is the most common chronic bacterial
infection in humans. It is estimated to
infect more than half the world’s
population, predominantly in developing
countries and has been detected in all
present day human populations. In fact,
studies have shown that it was already
present in the stomachs of humans over
58,000 years ago.
Despite its indigenous association with
humans, the prevalence of H.P. infection
has been diminishing worldwide,
especially in developed countries. This is
believed to be partially due to
modernization, improved sanitary
practices and the increased use of
antibiotics over the 20th century. For
example, a 2007 study published in the
journal Helicobacter showed that H.P.
rates in Guangzhou, China decreased from
62.5% in 1993 to 49.3% in 2003. Similar
trends have been noted worldwide.
What are the symptoms of
Helicobacter pylori?
H.P. causes stomach inflammation
(gastritis) in all those infected with it.
However, only 10-20% of those infected
have symptoms. Some symptoms of H.P.
and its associated diseases include
recurrent nausea and non-ulcer related
upper abdominal pain, vomiting,
abdominal bloating, and burping.
What are some other risk factors for
stomach cancer to keep in mind?
Studies have shown that, in general,
countries in Asia such as China, Korea,
and Japan with high gastric cancer rates
have high rates of H.P. infection as well.
However, there are some Asian countries,
such as Thailand and India, where
prevalence of H.P. infection is high but
stomach cancer incidence is relatively low.
This suggests that the development of
stomach cancer is due to an interaction of
multiple factors – genetic and
environmental -- in addition to H.P.
Some specific risk factors for gastric cancer
include: being a first-degree relative of a
patient diagnosed with gastric cancer,
smoking, and high intakes of salted,
smoked, pickled, and preserved foods. In
contrast, strong evidence has been
provided that high consumption of fresh
fruit and raw vegetables are associated
with reduced risks.
Who should be tested for H.P.?
Routine screening for H.P. is generally not
recommended. On the other hand, as H.P
is present in a majority of patients with
gastric and duodenal ulcers, having
symptoms or an established diagnosis of an
ulcer should prompt testing. These
symptoms can include burning abdominal
pain worsened by an empty stomach or
relieved by food or antacids, vomiting
blood, black stools (a sign of internal
bleeding), and tiredness due to anemia (low
blood count). According to the Second
Asia-Pacific Consensus Guidelines for
Helicobacter pylori infection, other reasons
for testing include but are not limited to:
There is currently no consensus on routine
testing of asymptomatic family members
of patients treated for H.P.
• Patients with first degree relatives with
H.P. can be diagnosed via a blood test,
breath test, stool test or endoscopy. Which
test is appropriate will depend on the
clinical situation.
gastric cancer
• Patient wishes (after full consultation
with their physician)
• Patients with a long-history of
gastroesohageal disease (GERD)
requiring long term use of acid reducing
medications
• As a strategy to reduce gastric cancer in
communities with a high incidence of
gastric cancer. These include: East Asia
(China, Korea, Japan), Eastern Europe,
and parts of Central and South America.
• Patients with unexplained iron
deficiency
• Prior to long-term treatment with
non-steroidal anti-inflammatory
medications or aspirin
• Patients with non-ulcer dyspepsia
(painful, difficult, or disturbed
digestion, which may be accompanied
by symptoms such as nausea and
vomiting, heartburn, bloating, and
stomach discomfort).
How is H.P. diagnosed?
How is H.P. treated?
Unfortunately, there is no single drug that
can effectively treat H.P. Treatment,
however, is usually simple and
straightforward -- taking two antibiotics
and one acid reducer for 7-14 days. Due to
increasing resistance rates, some patients
may require several courses of treatments
with different antibiotic combinations to
eradicate the infection. Antibiotic
treatment should not be performed unless
a positive test for H.P. is obtained.
In summary, there is still a great deal to be
learned about H.P. Based on current
medical evidence, the significance of H.P.
infection depends on your medical risk
profile. It is important that you consult
your physician if you feel you should be
tested for H.P.
Saeid Mirafzali, MD, is an Internal Medicine
Physician at the Shanghai United Family Hospital
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What is a ‘found object’
and what is its meaning?
A found object is the art term used
for material used in art works but
originally intended for a different
purpose. The use of found objects
gained visibility in the early part of
the 20th century. The most famous
example is undoubtedly Marcel
Duchamp’s Fountain, a porcelain
urinal submitted for the exhibition of
the Society of Independent Artists in
191This work, in particular, brought
the idea of using everyday, discarded
or re-appropriated objects as art
materials into the discussion of what
constitutes a valid work of art.
Louise Nevelson (August 23, 1899 –
April 17, 1988) was a Russian-born
American sculptor who established
herself by using found objects in
much of her work. She is best
known for her monumental,
monochromatic, wooden wall pieces
and sculptures. For these, Nevelson
utilized pieces of furniture and other
wood objects she found discarded
near her apartment in New York.
Rising out of limitations set by her
cramped work space – her kitchen –
Nevelson’s early work in this vein
was modular so it could be worked
on in pieces. She held to this method
even after moving to a large studio.
Her sculptures contain multiple
pieces, shaped, cut and fitted
together like puzzles, then spraypainted to transform their original
meaning. Louise Nevelson remains
one of the most important figures in
20th-century American sculpture.
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children,
encourage
them to
use their
imaginations
to ‘see’ new
things emerge
from your
assemblage of
transformed
everyday
objects.
The Found Object
Assemblage Project: Ages
3-12
Although they will need assistance
with cutting and shaping objects,
children as young as three can enjoy
this project.
The intention of the project is to
learn to look at everyday items and
break down our preconceived
notions about their proper usage by
seeing their forms objectively. The
objects are separated from their
purposes by setting them in new
relationships, creating new
functions, and transforming their
meaning. The project also teaches
spatial concepts, minor motor skills
and perception based on color.
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LIFE & CULTURE 生活文化
You will need:
Recycled materials, white and black
paint, paint brushes (small and
large), scissors and cutting knife,
glue (a 50-50 mixture of paste and
PVC glue works best), and two
boxes of a similar size.
1. For one or two weeks, set aside
all the recyclable materials you
can, such as to-go containers,
coffee cans, toilet paper rolls,
bottles, cardboard, broken
household items, and twistties. Also include things that
can be properly washed such as
disposable chopsticks, plastic
bags, and aluminum foil.
2. Cut the sides of the boxes to a
height of 3cm. Using acrylic or
poster paint, paint one white
and the other black. Set aside –
they need not be dry to set
objects in.
3. Now, take a look at what you
have collected and study their
shapes, sizes, and surfaces, not
only as individual objects but
also in relation to one another.
Next think about their initial
functions and how you can
distort those associations by
cutting, crushing, combining or
stacking the items.
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4. Lay down a thick layer of glue
(0.5 cm) on the bottom of each
box.
5. Build your modular sculptures
in tandem — looking at not only
the way the items fit together
within their own boxes, but
how the two boxes relate to one
another. Use more of the glue
when attaching objects to one
another. Let dry overnight.
6. Take a picture before you paint it.
7. Completely paint all the objects
white or black according to their
boxes.
Place the pieces in front of a light
source to accentuate the depth and
surface. How are the shapes
transformed? What are some of the
differences between the black box
and the white one? Does one color
recede more than the other? If
you’re working with children,
encourage them to use their
imaginations to ‘see’ new things
emerge from your assemblage of
transformed everyday objects.
To find out more about the Colorbox
creative arts center, visit www.
colorboxarts.com/en/index.php
Escapade
in breathtaking Lijiang
By Raphaëlle Choël
L
ijiang can be reached by a four hour
flight from Shanghai and is served
by ten direct flights, including
options from Hong Kong.
A world heritage treasure
Situated at an altitude of 2,300 meters and
ranked as a world heritage site, Lijiang
consists of Dayan Ancient Town, Shuhe
Ancient Town and Baisha Village. Baisha,
home to the Naxi minority, is located at
the bottom of the majestic Jade Dragon
Snow Mountain and was named after the
white sand (‘baisha’) that used to cover
the Naxi camps in the old days. Nearby, in
Yuhu, stands the house of AustroAmerican explorer, botanist and
photographer Joseph Rock (1884-1962).
As a National Geographic correspondent,
Rock helped spread knowledge of the
Dongba (Naxi Shaman) culture
worldwide. His charming house is
charming, steeped in history, and well
worth a visit (entrance fee RMB 15).
Shuhe is where Naxi rural heritage meets
contemporary commercial culture. It is
one of the oldest Naxi settlements, with a
history dating back over 1,500 years, and
is one of the best-preserved cities along
the tea road.
Dayan was established during the
Southern Song Dynasty, about 800 years
ago. Its tiny streets, canal, and village are
filled with wonders.
An unforgettable show
The Lijiang Impression Show is a fantastic
way to discover the local history and
customs. The one-hour show consists of a
succession of indigenous music, tales and
dances, featuring a grand spectacle of 500
performers stemming from 16 nearby
villages, along with 100 horses, all relaying
the story of the various local minorities.
Located at the foot of the Jade Dragon
Snow Mountain, the show combines
cultural richness with natural grandeur.
(Tickets range from RMB 190 to RMB
260 for the VIP option, with the best
views.)
A dream hotel for a special
occasion
Lijiang offers an enticing mix of
accommodation options, from delightful
boutique hotels such as the Blossom Hill
Inn, the Butterfly Resort or the Artistic
Suite, to high-end international chains
offering the very best of service, such as
the Crowne Plaza situated in the old
town, the Banyan Tree or the sumptuous
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Crowne Plaza Lijiang
Pullman Lijiang Resort & Spa that opened
its doors just a year ago. For sheer
opulence it is hard to match the Pullman’s
fully-equipped private villas, some
complete with outdoor hot tubs that recall
Japanese onsen hot springs. The hotel is
situated at the foot of a 5,596-meter
mountain, and its outside terraces, private
lake, luxuriant vegetation, and elegant
library lounge attain true sublimity.
Guests tempted to indulge in a private
barbecue in their own villa would be wise
to choose the Naxi BBQ – a 2-hour flow of
lamb, beef, chicken wings, seafood,
vegetables and salads, followed by a dessert
plate. (Prices range from RMB 2,340 per
night for a villa to RMB 1,440 for a room.
The ‘In Villa BBQ’ for two, with a private
chef, costs RMB 1,388.)
Street life
Walking Lijiang’s quaint and quirky
streets is a perfect way to capture its
atmosphere, especially in Dayan, and even
more so at night, when the village dresses
up to party. One special destination is
Myth, easily found along the famous bar
street, and renowned for its high-voltage
music and dance floor. Outside, local
artists perform for visitors, who reward
them with notes slipped into beer bottles.
Those strolling through the lovely streets
of Shuhe during the day should be sure to
stop at the adorable Japanese-style San
Puo Café. This coffee shop, which serves
drinks, snacks, rice and porridge, feels like
an old dollhouse, complete with a purple
Walking Lijiang’s
quaint and quirky
streets is a perfect
way to capture its
atmosphere, especially
in Dayan, and even
more so at night, when
the village dresses up
to party.
string of fairy lights and a miniature guitar
hanging on the wall. Street food lovers will
be enticed by the tasty smelly dried Yak
meat and the famous local pancake called
‘Baba’, but familiar Western flavors are
available for those who want them, from a
variety of international fastfood outlets,
and from a semi-Western restaurant called
BuonAppetito located at the entrance to
Lijiang old town, which offers both a
Chinese and an Italian menu (including
pizzas, pastas, salads and carpaccios).
Time for a pampering?
After a long day of walking, thoughts can
easily turn to a tip-to-toe pamper
treatment, which the Mandara Spa is
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Pullman Lijiang
perfectly placed to provide. In the lobby,
guests are welcomed by a mixture of jazz
and the sound of little birds chirping
outside. The spas stylish treatment cabins
are equipped with tubs and multi-type
showers with beautifully decorated
interiors and exteriors. The most
irresistible massage is the four–hands
dream treatment (RMB 980 – 75 minutes)
completed in a harmonious rhythm
combining Japanese Shiatsu movements,
Hawaian LomiLomi, together with
Balinese and Swedish techniques. The
experience is topped with notes of vetiver,
patchouli and ylang-ylang essential oils. A
simpler option is the 90-minute Thai
massage, wearing a traditional robe
(RMB 780).
Natural splendor
Yunnan offers landscapes of rare beauty.
Among the most celebrated attractions
are the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain,
which can be scaled by cable-car (RMB
170), Lashi Lake, whose old waterfront
villages are ideal for visiting on
horseback (from RMB 280 to RMB 680),
Information
Hotels: Pullman Lijiang
Resort & Spa Shuhe Old Town
entrance road, 674100 Lijiang
/ Tel : (+86) 888/5300111 www.pullmanhotels.com/gb/
hotel-7231-pullman-lijiangresort-and-spa
Butterfly Resort (Meng
Die Zhuang): Shuhe Old
Town : Shuhe Countyside
International Pub Area, South
Hali Valley (Hali Gu Nan
Duan)
Banyan Tree Lijiang Shuhe
Long Quan Village
Blossom Hill Inn (Hua Jian
Tang): Dayan Old Town : 97,
Wenzhi Lane - Wuyi Street
Crowne Plaza 276 Xianghe
Road Lijiang Old Town, Tel:
800 830 7228
Artistic Suite: 63 Xingwen
Lane (Xingwen Xiang), Qiyi
Street (Qiyi Jie), Old Town
and the famous Tiger Leaping Gorge
(entrance RMB 65), situated between
Lijiang and Shangri-la, which tests
visitors with a climb of a 1,000 steps
before they reach the breathtaking view.
The area’s waterways include the Yangzi,
and boat trips are an excellent way of
enjoying it. Among the more peculiar
opportunities is a casual lunch facing the
world’s highest and longest golf course
(at an altitude of 3,100 meters, with a
217 meter-long no.-5 hole). Shangri-la is
within easy reach – but that is another
adventure…
Organize your trip with Out
and About: guide, driver,
tickets, itinerary: +86 (888)
5300 111 – reservation@
pullman-lijiang.com
Show: Ganhaizi, Jade Dragon
Snow Mountain / Tel: +86
010 64622566 – reservations:
+86 0888 8888888 - www.
impression-show.com
Bar: Myth (Shen Hua in
Chinese) on Dayan Old Town
bar street
Café: San Puo Restaurant
Lijiang Shuhe Old Town
Zhonghe Lu (near the
Old Central square) – Tel:
+86 0888-5153289 / + 86
13368882553
Restaurant: BuonAppetito, 26
Lijiang Old Town / Tel: + 86
15987949007
Mandara Spa: Shuhe Old
Town entrance road / Tel: +
86 (888) 5300 111, ext. 7151,
7152
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Primary colors
Bright back-to-school fashion
A
By Hart Huguet Hagerty
s your little ones head back to
school this fall, teach them a
lesson about primary colors.
Red, blue and yellow are all they need
to look bright when the class bell rings.
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Lu, by Xikang Lu 恒隆广场,南
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Focusing In:
Restoring the school mindset after summer
by Christine Forte
T
here are some lucky parents whose
kids love to go to school, come
home and do their homework
independently, and always pay attention in
class. For the other 99%, there can be
times when they find it difficult to get their
kids to focus. After two months of summer
vacation, the end of August can be one of
these times. Once the excitement of the
first day or two of school wears off, kids
can find it difficult to maintain the
inspiration to do their work. As parents it
can be difficult to know how to manage
this, short of using disciplinary measures.
These may be effective in cases where
discipline truly is the issue, but if it’s a
problem of distraction, it can be more
effective to help kids learn ways to manage
their work.
There can be different reasons that your
child is finding it hard to get focused. She
may find particular tasks boring and
therefore hard to concentrate on. Or she
may find it hard to know where to begin.
She may also struggle with her attention
zoning in and out, especially over longer
periods of time. Fortunately there are tools
that can be learned for decreasing all of
these difficulties. Evenings can become a
lot easier with just a few strategies for
focusing in.
The first strategy that can be helpful is to
sit with your child and help him or her
make a list of everything that needs to be
done that day. If possible, start the list with
one of the easier homework tasks and end
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it with one too. Beginning with an easier
task can help children have a boost of
confidence and make the process of
homework less daunting. Ending with a
relatively easy task has a similar effect, by
making the whole process seem less
painful. Make sure things get checked off
on the list as they are completed (who
doesn’t love to check off things on their todo list?) to give the child a sense of moving
forward. Also be sure to check that some
time is given to longer, ongoing
assignments so that they aren’t left for the
last minute.
If your child can’t remember what her
homework is, help her to problem solve.
What are the possible ways that she can
find out? Can she phone a friend or check
the blog for the class? Many teachers keep
up a blog or website for their classes; take
the time at the beginning of the semester
to see what information is posted there so
that your child can know where to go for
answers. After the problem-solving stage,
once your child has decided on a method
for finding out the homework, have him
look for the information himself. While
you serve as a guide in this process, it’s
important that he actually do everything
himself.
When not knowing the homework is
repeatedly a problem, work through some
ways that your child can remember to
write it down. Some ideas are, a note
attached to the inside of her backpack that
she’ll see at the end of the day or making
sure to take out the homework diary every
morning so that it will be visible. The
international schools give a homework
diary, it’s important for children to use this
so that they can learn and practice their
organizational habits. Many teachers
already set up a system for checking that
students write down homework, especially
at the beginning of the year. Ask your child
if there is a system for this in her
classroom.
It’s important to remember that for many
children, it is their level of distractibility
rather than willful laziness that causes
homework not to get done. Usually
children want to do well, some just have
more difficulty than others in making that
happen. Creating a workspace that is
relatively distraction-free can end up both
saving you energy and headache as well as
helping your child get more of a sense of
accomplishment. In the workspace TV and
electronics should not be visible (or should
be switched off) and technology that the
child is allowed to use during homework
time should be limited to only that which
is needed for the work. Many adults
struggle with limiting their internet
surfing during work time, so of course it is
even more difficult for children, who tend
to have a higher level of distractibility.
Naturally there needs to be time scheduled
for breaks and physical exercise. Make the
plan for this clear and then stick to the
time limits you have set up. Be creative
with this and vary it if necessary. If your
child is having difficulty concentrating, the
most important thing is that you are
present and active in the process of making
It’s important to remember that
for many children, it is their
level of distractibility rather
than willful laziness that causes
homework not to get done.
a homework plan – it doesn’t necessarily
have to be done in one specific way. Find
what works for you and your child.
Relaxation exercises can be used to calm
down if children are very excited from play
before study time. Simple deep belly
breaths or counting backwards from 100
by 7’s (or an easier number like 2
depending on the age of the child) can
help draw attention to the present moment
and the task at hand.
And finally, we can at times have to alter
our expectations. Children won’t complete
all of their homework perfectly or 100%
on time. It can be equally important for
them to experience the consequences of
this as it can be to have the experience of
doing the homework itself. Learning how
to make up for mistakes is an incredibly
important part of the education process –
and one that many of us have to continue
shaping our knowledge of throughout our
lives.
It’s important to remember that the way
things are going at the beginning of the
school year is not necessarily
representative of how the rest of the year
will be. Sometimes kids find the increased
workload of a new grade level
overwhelming at the beginning of the year
but then gradually adjust. The opposite
can also be true. Students can start the
year with a lot of excitement and then after
this fades, good organizational habits fall
by the wayside. So it’s important to
continue checking in with what’s going on
in the homework area throughout the year.
Nonetheless, if the difficulties persist or
worsen, or you suspect your child may
have more serious attention deficits, it
could be time seek individualized
professional assessment and help.
Christine Forte is a counselor at Balanced Heart
Counseling Shanghai.
Sources:
10 Days to a Less Distracted Child: The
Breakthrough Program that Gets Your Kids to
Listen, Learn, Focus, and Behave by Dr. Jeffrey
Bernstein
ADD/ADHD Drug Free: Natural Alternatives and
Practical Exercises to Help your Child Focus by
Frank Jacobelli and Lynn A. Watson
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Deliciously wholesome eats
W
by Jeni Saeyang {Eco & More}
ith the change of seasons and slightly cooler
evenings on the way, keeping healthy is easy
and delicious with super foods such as
hazelnut, Atlantic salmon and high quality cocoa for
that special cup of hot chocolate. For this issue, I am
introducing dishes that are big on flavor, high on
nutrition and simple enough to master at home.
Home made hot
chocolate – the old
fashion way
自制热巧克力
Serves 2
• 100g dark drinking chocolate (choose a good
imported brand if possible. Ole Supermarket
offers a wide variety of these).
• 55g dark chocolate, broken into small pieces
• 60g whipping cream (or you can cheat with
ready whip!)
• Pinch of sea salt
Preheat the oven to 150C. Scatter the hazelnuts or
cobnuts over a baking sheet and roast for 12-15
minutes. Alternatively, you can roast the nuts in a
non-stick pan on the stove-top over low heat.
Make sure you keep an eye on them and toss them
regularly so they don't get burnt.
Put 200g cold drinking water and the drinking
chocolate into a saucepan and bring to the boil
over a medium heat. When boiling, add the dark
chocolate pieces and a pinch of salt. Stir until the
chocolate has melted.
Add the whipping cream and use a hand blender to
give it a quick whisk for foaminess.
Pour into a big mug and add marshmallows on
top.
Enjoy with your favourite biscuit for a bedtime
treat.
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2人份
• 100克黑巧克力酱,进口品牌更佳。Ole超级
市场有售
• 55克黑巧克力,切成小块
• 60克手打奶油或者你可以选 择已经打好的奶油
• 少许海盐
在平底锅内放入200克冷开水和黑巧克力酱,用中火加
热到沸腾。加入黑巧克力块和少许的海盐,搅拌直到巧
克力融化。
加入手打奶油并且用搅拌器快速搅动,使它起泡
然后再倒入一个大的茶杯,加一些棉花糖在上面
跟你最喜欢的饼干一起享用,作为就寝前对自己的款
待。
Rich, sweet and warming, everybody loves a
proper cup of homemade hot chocolate. Pair it
with an extra topping of whipped cream and
marshmallows to make it extra fun and special.
Courgette and
Hazelnut Salad
西葫芦榛子色拉
Serves 4
4人份
• 7 small courgettes
• 7个小西葫芦
• 4 tbsp olive oil
• 4汤匙橄榄油
• 1 tsp balsamic vinegar
• 1茶匙香醋
• 30g mixed green and purple basil leaves
• 30克紫色与绿色混合的紫苏叶
• 80g top-quality Parmesan, broken up or very
• 80克捣碎或切成薄片的上等帕玛森乳酪
• 50g hazelnuts or cobnuts (in season now)
thinly sliced
• 2 tsp hazelnut oil
• Salt and black pepper
Preheat the oven to 150C. Scatter the hazelnuts or
cobnuts over a baking sheet and roast for 12-15
minutes. Alternatively, you can roast the nuts in a
non-stick pan on the stove-top over low heat.
Make sure you keep an eye on them and toss them
regularly so they don't get burnt.
Place a ridged griddle pan on a high heat until it’s
very hot.
Meanwhile, remove the top and tail of the
courgettes and cut them into 1 cm thick slices.
Toss the slices with olive oil, sea salt and pepper.
Place the slices on the hot grill pan and char-grill
for 2 minutes on each side. Make sure you do not
over crowd the pan and cook until there are nice
char marks on them. Transfer to a mixing bowl,
pour over the balsamic vinegar, toss and set aside
to cool.
Once the courgettes have cooled down, add the
remaining olive oil, the basil leaves, and the
toasted nuts. Mix lightly, taste and adjust
seasoning. Place the whole gorgeous mess in a
large serving platter and drizzle over the extra
hazel nut oil and slices of Parmesan for extra yum.
• 50克榛子或栗子
• 1茶匙榛子油
• 盐与黑胡椒
将烤箱预热至150摄氏度。将榛子或栗子均匀地铺在烤
盘上,加热12-15分钟。或者,你可以在炉灶上用不粘
锅以文火加热坚果。注意经常翻炒它们,以免被烧焦。
用大火将脊筛锅加温至非常热。
与此同时,将西葫芦的顶部和尾部切除,并将它们切成
1cm厚的片,加入橄榄油,海盐和辣椒进行搅拌,然后
放在烤盘上,用炭火两面各加热2分钟。注意不要将锅放
的过满。将西葫芦的表面烤出好看的纹路,然后把它们
转移到碗中,倒入香醋,搅拌,放在一边冷却。
待西葫芦冷却后,加入生于的橄榄油,紫苏叶和烤坚
果。轻轻搅拌,尝味道,然后再根据口味调节调料。最
后把它们放入大拼盘中,滴上一些榛子坚果油,撒上一
些帕玛森乳酪片来增加口感。
Fresh organic courgettes have just come into
season now and are sweeter and juicier than your
summer variety. They can be simply grilled and
paired with a good quality Parmesan cheese for
texture and bite.
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Hot yoghurt and broad
bean soup
热酸奶蚕豆浓汤
Serves 4
• 6 tbsp olive oil
• 1 medium onion, quartered
• 4 celery sticks, quartered
• 1 large carrot, peeled and cut
into 2cm chunks
• 5 thyme sprigs
• 2 bay leaves
• 30 flat-leaf parsley
• 500g shelled broad beans (you
can buy this fresh and shelled
in the local markets)
• 50g long-grain rice (last night’s
left over rice is perfect)
• 400g Greek yogurt
unsweetened
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 large free-range egg
• 3 tbsp roughly chopped chives
• Grated zest and juice of 1
lemon
• Sea salt and white pepper
Start by making the vegetable
stock. Pour two tablespoons of
the olive oil into a large pot. Heat
up the oil and add the onion,
celery and carrot. Saute on a
medium heat for about 5 minutes
until the vegetables are softened
but not brown. Add the aromatic
herbs including thyme, bay leaves
and parsley and cover with 1.2
litres of water. Bring to the boil,
then reduce the heat, cover and
simmer gently for 30 minutes.
While the stock is simmering
away, get to work on the beans.
Bring a saucepan of water to the
boil. Add the beans and cook for
1 minute. Drain, then refresh the
beans under cold running water
to stop the cooking and keep the
bright green color of the beans.
Next, remove the skins by gently
pressing with your fingers against
the sides of each bean, causing
the soft bean to pop out; discard
the skins. You can get your kids
involved in this activity for a bit
of fun.
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• 6汤匙橄榄油
• 1个中等大小的洋
葱,四等分
• 4棵西芹杆,四等分
When the stock is ready, stain the
liquid and discard the vegetables
and herbs. Add the cooked rice
and the skinned broad beans and
seasoning then blitz the whole
mixture in a blender or with a
hand help blender for a few
minutes or until smooth.
• 1个大的胡萝卜,去
Whisk in yogurt, garlic and egg
into the soup mixture and slowly
warm up the soup without
bringing to a boil. Taste for
seasoning and add lemon juice is
you like. Serve with a generous
topping of chopped chives, lemon
zest and a drizzle of olive oil.
• 500克去壳蚕豆(当
As the evenings get cooler, serve the family a hearty vegetable soup
this fall that is so special it makes a wholesome meal all on its own.
It’s a bit of work but this is a recipe that you can get your ayi involved
in and have her add it to her repertoire. It's a great example of a recipe
that uses local ingredients, such as broad beans and rice, together with
Western flavours such as yogurt and parsley. The result is a perfect East
meets West work of culinary art.
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4人份
皮切成2厘米的长条
• 5株百里香
• 2片月桂叶
• 30棵大叶香菜
地市场有售)
• 50克米饭(隔夜饭
更佳)
• 400g希腊无糖酸奶
• 2瓣大蒜,压碎
• 1个大颗散养鸡蛋
• 3汤匙切碎的韭菜
• 1个柠檬的汁和果皮
• 盐和白胡椒
首先要做蔬菜汤汁。在大
汤锅中加入2汤勺橄榄
油。等橄榄油热了加入洋
葱、西芹和胡萝卜,中火
煮大约5分钟直至蔬菜变
软但不要变成褐色。加入
百里香、月桂叶和香菜等
香料后加入1.2升水。水
烧开后盖上锅盖,用小火
焖煮30分钟。
汤锅中的蔬菜在焖煮的时
候,就可以来料理蚕豆
了!在平底锅中加满水煮
沸。蚕豆放入锅中煮1分
钟,捞出沥干并用冷水冲
洗冷却,这样可以保持豆
子的色泽和口感。接下来
我们就可以动手小心地去
除豆壳,你也可以让家里
的小朋友来和你一起给蚕
豆去壳。
待汤料煮好后,沥出汤汁
后把剩余的蔬菜和香料丢
弃。将煮熟的米饭和去壳
蚕豆以及调味料放入搅拌
机搅拌几分钟直至顺滑。
加入酸奶、大蒜和鸡蛋后
与汤汁混合均匀并缓缓加
热,注意不要煮沸。根据
个人口味加入柠檬汁等调
味料。撒上韭菜末、柠檬
皮,最后点几滴橄榄油就
大功告成啦!
Anthills
Divided
by Christine Forte
P
lonk! Little Laura Shanfrey
felt a particle of dust bounce
down upon her head. She
turned around to see where it came
from. Three boy ants were skipping
away laughing.
laughing in reply to these comments
and felt a pain that hurt more than
the dust hitting her. Why did they
have to be so mean?
“Hahaha, look at the nerd from
Shanting - her big head must be
sore now!”
She tried to shake it off, repeating to
herself what her mother had told
her a million times. “Don’t pay
attention to those naughty ants
from Bantsville. They’re just jealous
that their anthilll isn’t as nice as
ours.”
“But I guess her eyes would be
hurting anyway – she has to look at
all those ugly ants from her anthill
all the time!” She heard the others
For as long as anyone could
remember, the ant citizens of the
anthill in Shanting had been
enemies with those from Bantsville.
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STORY 故事
No one could really remember
anymore how the feud had got
started but the ants carried on their
resentment towards each other as if
their survival depended on it.
Whenever they ran into each other
out gathering food or building
materials for their respective
anthills, the younger ants would
spit, throw things, or shout insults.
The older ants were usually more
dignified in their snubs, preferring
instead to lift their ant noses and
arrogantly brush past the rival ants.
No one could really remember
anymore how the feud had
got started but the ants
carried on their resentment
towards each other as if
their survival depended on
it. Whenever they ran into
each other out gathering
food or building materials
for their respective anthills,
the younger ants would spit,
throw things, or shout insults.
That day was no different. The sun
was shining brightly and the sky was
clear blue but it did little to lift
Laura’s sour mood. Why couldn’t
life be different in their anthills? She
really didn’t understand. The hills
were so close together that they
could certainly get more done if
they worked together; combining
efforts to gather food and sand for
building.
That night, at home she said as
much to her parents.
“What are you talking about?!” Her
father replied, with an anger that
surprised Laura. “Those ants are
terrible! They steal from us at night
when we’re not looking. Whenever
there’s a good food source that has
been dropped nearby, they always
take far more than their share! And
they’re rude!”
“It’s true they can be mean and
selfish sometimes but they’re just
ants, like us!” Laura could hardly
believe what she was saying. She was
standing up for the ants who had
just a few hours ago bullied her
terribly. But she couldn’t help but
believe that they wouldn’t do it if
not for this stupid feud.
“There, there Laura,” her mother
started to say, trying to calm her.
But just then she felt the sand
beneath her feet moving. And then
the walls were crumbling too.
“Whoosh!” she heard the deep voice
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of a powerful wind outside the
anthill. Their little room was really
shaking now. And then the left wall
blew away completely and the floor
beneath her father disappeared and
she saw him falling.
“Dad!” she screamed, reaching out
while scrambling not to fall into the
hole after him. She and her mother
grabbed onto each other and
huddled against the most stable
wall.
And then, as abruptly as it had
begun, the wind stopped. Laura and
her mother stood up shakily. They
looked over the edge of gaping hole
where their living room used to be,
the twilight pouring in where the
wall of their home had been.
“Honey?” her mother called to her
father over the edge of the hole. “Are
you OK?” Laura could see him a few
millimeters down, pinned under
several large grains of sand.
“I think so,” he called back, “It’s
just that I can’t move with this sand
on top of me.”
“OK, just hang on. I’m going to try
to crawl down there and help you.”
Laura could see the fear on her
mother’s face and knew that her
own face probably had the same
expression. What if her mother
crawled down into the hole after
him and then neither of them could
get back out?
Just then, two figures appeared at
the hole in their wall.
“Everyone OK in here? Do you need
some help?” one of them called.
“Yes, please help us!” Laura’s
mother cried. Laura could hear the
relief in her voice. “We’re OK but
my husband is stuck under this
sand.”
The two big ants crawled in and
down the hole. Laura just stared at
them. She could tell by the way they
spoke and moved that they were
from Bantsville. She couldn’t believe
that they were here in Shanting,
helping her family.
or whatever it is that ants do.
She heard them grunting and
pushing down in the hole and finally
the sand shifted again and her father
was freed. They all climbed out and
her father gave each of them a big
hug.
“I can’t thank you enough for
helping me!” he said. Then he
seemed to think for a moment. “But
you’re not from here, are you? What
are you doing here helping us?”
The two ants shrugged. “We were
out collecting food and we saw
Shanting getting blown over by the
big wind. We ran over right away to
help because we thought some ants
might be hurt.” They pointed. “It
looks like Bantsville is OK because
it’s protected by that wall over
there.”
“We should probably go, there may
be other families who need help,”
the other said. And then, just like
that, they turned and were gone.
Laura peered out after them. To her
surprise, she saw Bantsville ants all
over their anthill helping to rescue
and dig out ants in trouble. It
brought tears to her eyes to see the
Bantsville ants helping them when,
just moments before, they had
believed that they hated each other.
In the days after that, the residents
of the two anthills worked together
to rebuild Shanting, closer to
Bantsville so that in the future it
would also be better protected from
strong winds by the nearby wall. The
two hills worked together at
collecting food and building
supplies. They even built a small
school for the workers of both of
their colonies in between the two
hills so that the children could grow
up and learn together. Nothing
more was ever said about the feud
and they all lived happily ever after –
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EVENTS 活动
SUIS Celebrates Graduate Achievements
O
n June 8 Shanghai United
International School held a
ceremony at its Gubei Secondary
Campus to celebrate its first
graduate cohort. Impressive
university placement offers,
including 13 from among the
world’s top 100 universities,
consolidated the sense of
achievement. Speeches by keynote
speaker Professor Hu Wei of the
Xiehe Education Organization,
Western Principal David Walsh,
and Valedictorian Amos Fong,
New Venue for Little
Urbanites
were interspersed by classical and
jazz performances by talented
musicians from the school, Jacky
Li, Charles Qu, and Hyerin Kim.
In keeping with the principles
of the Xiehe Organization, SUIS
seeks to to combine the best of
Eastern and Western education,
in accordance with the mission
‘East meets West’. For more
information, readers can explore
the school website at www.suis.
com.cn
Darrel Falk at
Concordia
'
Concordia Presents Speaker Series' inaugural
speaker Dr. Darrel Falk presents a Public Lecture
on The Intersection of Science and Faith. Dr. Falk
is President of BioLogos and author of Coming to
Peace with Science: Bridging the Worlds between
Faith and Biology.
Time: Thursday, October 18, 7-9pm, Free and Open
to the Public
Location: Concordia International School's
Rittmann Theatre (R101)
T
he Little Urban Center opened its doors on July 1, opposite Century
Park in Pudong. Established as a ‘children’s enrichment center’ for
youngsters aged 1-10, the LUC occupies a large villas sub-divided into 12
themed environments. It provides creative stimulation, an English-language
environment, scrupulous safety and hygiene standards, and a professional
(multilingual) staff, but the primary emphasis on fun. The LUC is open from
9am-9pm daily (excepting holidays and monthly cleaning days). Various
membership options are available. To find out more, or arrange a visit, call
the center at 021 5187 2889, or visit the website www.thelittleurbancenter.
com
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LISTINGS 指南
K.E.M Chinese Medicine Acupuncture
Weight Loss Center Unit B, 4/F, Shu
Guang Bldg, 189 Pu'an Lu (6386 1307)
Mon-Sun, 9am-9pm. 普安路 189 号曙
光大厦 4 楼 B 座 .
Professional Chinese Medicine 2/
F, Tong Han Chun, 20 Yuyuan Xin Lu
(close to Yu Garden) (6373 1232) Daily
8:30am-4:30pm. 童涵春专家门诊 , 豫
园新路 20 号童涵春国药 2 楼 ( 近豫园 )
Pregnancy Health Services
American-Sino OB/GYN Service 1)
Inpatient: 14/F, Complex Building
Huashan Hospital, 12 Wulumuqi
Zhong Lu, by Changle Lu (6249 3246,
5288 7240) 2)Outpatient: 3/F, Block 6,
Clove Apartment, 800 Huashan Lu,
by Zhenning Lu. (6210 2299) Mon-Fri
9am-8pm, Sat-Sun 9am-5pm. 美华妇
产 , 1) 乌鲁木齐中路 12 号华山医院综
合楼 14 楼近长乐路 .2) 华山路 800 弄
丁香公寓 6 号裙楼 3 楼近镇宁路 .
Parkway Health Medical Center
Services include family medicine,
birthing, paediatrics, infertility
treatment, ultrasound scanning, and
24-hour in-patient & urgent care. 3/
F, 170 Danshui Lu (6385 9889, 24 hour
hotline 6445 5999) Mon-Sun 9am9pm. 瑞新专科及住院中心 , 淡水路
170 号 3 楼 .
Shanghai East International Medical
Center 551 Pudong Nan Lu (5879
9999) www.seimc.com.cn. 上海市浦
东南路 551 号 .
VIP Maternity & GYN Center VIP 1315/F, 1961 Huashan Lu (6407 9476)
www.upmg.us. 国际妇产中心 , 华山
路 1961 号贵宾楼 13-15 层 .
WorldPath Clinic International 399
NanQuan Bei Lu (2020 7888) MonFri 9am-8pm,Sat-Sun 9am-4pm.
service@worldpathclinic.com. www.
worldpathclinic.com. 上海沃德医疗
中心 , 南泉北路 399 号 .
Ophthalmology
Healthway Nobel Eye Hospital 377
Xinzha Lu,Jingan District (6359 1166)
上海诺美尔五官科医院 , 静安新闸路
371 号
New Vision Eye Clinic 12th Floor, New
Out-Patient Building, Rui Jin Hospital,
197 Ruijin Er Lu (6437 7445) eng.rjeye.
com 瑞视眼科 , 卢湾区瑞金二路 197
号 , 近绍兴路
Renai International Patient Center 133,
Caoxi Lu, near by IKEA and Shanghai
Indoor Stadium, Xuhui District (5489 3781,
6468 8888 ext 211) http://www.renai.cn
上海仁爱医院 , 上海市徐汇区漕溪路 133
号 , 近万体馆 .
Shanghai Aier Eye Hospital 1286,
Hongqiao Lu, by Songyuan Lu,
Changning District (3251 9930 ) www.
aier021.com 上海爱尔眼科医院 , 上海
市长宁区虹桥路 1286 号 , 近宋园路路
口.
Shanghai Bright Eye Hospital 436,
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Gubei Lu, Changning District (6259
7666) www.pr021.com 上海普瑞眼科
医院 , 上海市长宁区古北路 436 号 .
Shanghai Long March Hospital
Ophthalmology Department 415,
Danfeng Lu, Huangpu District (6351
9814; 8188 6313) www.021eye.com 上
海长征医院眼科 , 黄埔凤阳路 415 号
长征医院门诊二楼 .
Shanghai Peace Hospital of
Ophthalmology 61, Yiminhe Lu,
Hongkou District (5588 4095) www.
hpyk.com 上海和平眼科医院 , 虹口伊
敏河路 61 号
The Affiliated Five Sense Organ
Hospital of Fudan University 1) 83,
Fenyang Lu, Xuhui District (6437
7134) 2) 19 Baoqing Lu (6437 6425)
3) 389. Yaohua Lu (5883 5588) www.
fdeent.org 复旦大学附属眼耳鼻喉科
医院 , 1) 徐汇区汾阳路 83 号 2) 宝庆
路 19 号 3) 耀华路 389 号 .
WorldPath Clinic International 399
NanQuan Bei Lu (2020 7888) MonFri 9am-8pm,Sat-Sun 9am-4pm.
service@worldpathclinic.com. www.
worldpathclinic.com. 上海沃德医疗
中心 , 南泉北路 399 号 .
Xinshijie Eye Hospital 18, Huichuan
Lu, by Kaixuan Lu (400 881 3365)
www.neweye.cn 上海新视界眼科医
院 , 上海市汇川路 18 号 , 近凯旋路 .
Family
Entertainments
Kids Entertainments
Aquaria 21 A great place for children’ s
birthday parties and aquarium
sleepovers. Dive in our 2.2 million
litre oceanarium with sharks, rays,
turtles and many more, or swim with
our Beluga whales. Massive South
Amerrican-themed underwater
world aquarium, Beluga Whale Show
Stadium and simulator action rides.
Gate 4, Changfeng Park, 451 Daduhe
Lu (6286 6399) www.oceanworld.com.
cn 长风海洋世界 大渡河路 451 号长风
公园 4 号门
Shanghai Circus World 2266
Gonghexin Lu, by Guangzhong Lu
(5665 6622) 上海马戏城 , 共和新路
2266 号 , 近广中路 .
Shanghai Science & Technology
Museum High-tech displays, indoor
rainforest, children’ s amusement center,
and sound & light shows. Shanghai’ s
two new IMAX 3D cinemas are housed
inside this complex. See Cinema
Directory for details. 2000 Shiji Da Dao,
by Dingxiang Lu, Pudong (6862 2000)
RMB60, Tue-Sun 9am-5pm. webmaster@
sstm.org.cn. www.sstm.org.cn. 上海科技
馆 , 浦东世纪大道 2000 号 , 近丁香路 .
Parks
Century Park Seven scenic areas,
including oriental garden, wildlife
zone and miniature golf course.
1001 Jinxiu Lu, by Minsheng Lu,
Pudong (3876 0588) 7am-6pm. www.
centurypark.com.cn. 世纪公园 , 浦东
锦绣路 1001 号 , 近民生路 .
Changfeng Park 189 Daduhe Lu (6245
3270) 大渡河路 451 号 .
Fuxing Park 2 Gaolan Lu (5386 1069)
Daily 6am-6pm. 复兴公园 , 皋兰路 2
号.
Gongqing Forest Park BBQ area,
leisure sections with fishing,
horseback riding and boating. Last
entry 4pm. 2000 Jungong Lu (6574
0586) Daily 5am-5pm. 共青森林公园 ,
军工路 2000 号 .
Guyi Garden Ming dynasty garden
with ancient buildings, waterside
pavilions, long verandahs, winding
waters, ancient trees, flowers and
bamboo. 218 Huyi Gong Lu (5912
2225) RMB 12, Daily 6am-6pm. 古漪
园 , 沪宜公路 218 号 .
Jing'An Park 1649 Nanjing Xi Lu (6248
3238) Free entry, 5am-7pm. 静安公园 ,
南京西路 1649 号 .
Lu Xun Park Big entertainment
section for children. 146
Dongjiangwan Lu, by Sichuan Lu
(6540 0009) 6am-6pm. 鲁迅公园 , 东
江湾路 146 号 , 近四川路 .
Renmin Park 231 Nanjing Xi Lu, by
Huangpi Lu (6327 1694) 人民公园 , 南
京西路 231 号 , 近黄陂路 .
Jane Goodall Institute-Shanghai
Roots & Shoots Program 15/F, Ocean
Towers, 550 Yan’ an Dong Lu, by
Zhejiang Zhong Lu (6352 3580)
roots&shoots@zuelligpharma.com.
cn. www.jgi-shanghai.org. 上海根与
芽青少年活动中心 , 延安东路 550 号
海洋大厦 15 楼 , 近浙江中路 .
Shanghai Botanical Garden Park 1111
Longwu Lu, by Baise Lu (5436 3369)
RMB 15, free if under 1.2m, Daily 7am5pm. 上海植物园 , 龙吴路 1111 号 , 近
百色路 .
Natural History Museum 260 Yan’ an
Dong Lu, by Jiangxi Zhong Lu, TueSun, 9am-3.30pm. 自然博物馆 , 延安
东路 260 号 , 近江西中路 .
Shanghai Wild Animal Park 178 South
Road, Nanhui, Pudong (5803 6000) RMB
90, Daily 8am-5pm. 上海野生动物园 ,
浦东南汇南方公路 178 号
Shanghai Children Museum A
museum designed especially for kids.
Last entry 3.30pm. 61 Songyuan Lu,
close to Hongqiao Lu (6278 3127) RMB
20 for adults, RMB 10 for kids, Daily
8:30am-5pm, closed on Monday. 上海
儿童博物馆 , 宋园路 61 号 , 近虹桥路 .
Shanghai Zoo 2381 Hongqiao Lu, by
Hami Lu (6268 7775) RMB 30, Daily
6:30am-5:30pm. 上海动物园 , 虹桥路
2381 号 , 近哈密路
Xiangyang Park Bouncy things
and little battery-operated cars to
amuse the little troublemakers. 1008
Huaihai Zhong Lu, at Xiangyang Lu
(5404 2208) Free entry, Daily 5am7pm. 襄阳公园 , 淮海中路 1008 号 , 襄
阳路口 .
Zhongshan Park Play area, amusement
park, peacocks, fish world, bouncy castle,
paintball and more. 780 Changning Lu, at
the end of Dingxi Lu (6210 5806) Daily 5am6pm. 中山公园 , 长宁路 780 号 , 定西路口 .
Sports
Fencing
Shanghai Dragon Fencing Center Shanghai's largest, international
fencing club. Exclusive collaboration
with official Shanghai Team. World
Class Coaches and facilities in a
beautiful fencing hall. All skill levels.
All ages. International curriculum,
learn not only the Olympic sport of
fencing, but be inspired by fencing's
culture, grace and life lessons. 995
Shangchuan Lu, by Mingyao Lu,
at Shanghai Finance University
Campus/Fencing Center. Call (21)
2022.0098/133.910.65519 to schedule
your trial lesson. Or email: info@shdfc.com. www.sh-dfc.com. 上海君珑
击剑中心 , 上川路 995 号 , 近民耀路 ,
上海金融学院新击剑大楼 .
Z Fencing 18 years and on, Z Fencing
is the leading fencing club in Asia. We
provide 5 level international certified
professional fencing programs to
age of 4 and up. For trial session
reservation please call 64261113 or
email fence@zfencing.cn. Address:
4F Ascendas Plaza, #333 Tianyaoqiao
Road, Shanghai (xujiahui). 天钥桥路
333 号腾飞大厦 4 楼 419.
Gyms + Sports Clubs
Kerry Center Gym Indoor swimming pool,
large gymnasium, outdoor tennis court,
boxing room, revolving climbing wall,
aerobics, yoga, tai chi and spa facilities. 2/F,
1515 Nanjing Xi Lu, Shanghai Kerry Center
(6279 4625) Daily 6am-11pm. 嘉里健身中
心 , 上海嘉里中心 2 楼 , 南京西路 1515 号 .
Jae Hun Kim Taekwon-do Institute Lane
108, Weifang Xi Lu, by Pudong Nan Lu
(5877 1125) Mon-Fri: 11am-10pm, Sat,Sun:
9am-6pm, www.tkdshanghai.com 金载
跆拳道场 , 潍坊西路 108 弄 , 近浦东
南路 .
Megafit 1)1/F, 208 Baise Lu (5435 5318)
2)600 Lantian Lu, Pudong (5030 8118)
3)B3, 300 Huaihai Zhong Lu (5383
6633) Mon-Fri 6:30am-11pm, Sat-Sun
9am-9pm. www.megafitchina.com.
美格菲健身中心 1) 百色路 208 号 1 楼
2) 浦东新区蓝天路 600 号 3) 淮海中
路 300 号香港新世界大厦 B3 层 .
Physical Facilities: Gym, free weights
area, swimming pool, tanning beds,
sauna, steam room, beauty salon. 3/F,
Hong Kong Plaza, 282 Huaihai Zhong
Lu (6390 8188) Mon-Sat 6:30am11pm, Sun 7am-10pm. 舒适堡 , 香港广
LISTINGS 指南
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helper, baby-sitter, tutor, airport
pickup and see-off (delighting
your life in shanghai) Email: mdamanda@foxmail.com Mobile:
13564880039 amanda www.mdshanghai.com
Art
Book Stores
Chaterhouse 1) Shop 104, Shanghai
Center, 1376 Nanjing Xi Lu (6279 7633)
2) Shop B1-K, Shanghai Times Square,
93 Huaihai Zhong Lu, by Xizang
Zhong Lu (6391 8237) 10am-10pm.
customer@chaterhouse.com.cn.
www.chaterhouse.com.cn. 1) 南京西
路 1376 号上海商城 104 号店 2) 淮海
中路 93 号上海时代广场 B1-K 楼 , 近
西藏中路 .
Metro Station (5033 6611) 7)518
Lantian Lu (3870 0008) 百安居 ,1) 龙
吴路 118 号 , 近龙漕路 . 2) 梅川路 1318
号 . 3) 黄兴路 1616 号 , 近松花江路 . 4)
沪太路 1800 号 , 近汶水路 . 5)3228 共
和新路 . 6) 银霄路 393 号 , 近龙阳路
地铁站 . 7) 蓝天路 518 号 .
Blueair Rm A907, 250 Caoxi Lu,
Shanghai China (51082128) www.
blueairtrade.com. 上海市漕溪路 250
号 A907 室 .
DTL Garden Furniture 160 Jinfeng Bei
Lu, by Longdong Avenue, Pudong
(5833 1968) www.dingtang.com. 上海
鼎堂家具有限公司 , 上海市浦东新区
金丰北路 160 号 ( 近龙东大道 ).
Garden Books 325 Changle Lu, by
Shaanxi Nan Lu (5404 8729) 10am10pm. chochobook@yahoo.com.cn.
www.gardenbooks.cn. 韬奋西文书局 ,
长乐路 325 号 , 近陕西南路 .
Shanghai Foreign Language Book
Store 390 Fuzhou Lu, by Fujian Zhong
Lu (6322 3200) Mon-Fri, 9.30am-6pm;
Sat-Sun, 9.30am-7pm. 上海外文书店 ,
福州路 390 号 , 近福建中路 .
Shanghai Poplar Republic Children’s
Book Store Service: Any purchase of
50$ or more automatically signs you
up for our VIP membership. Every
purchase of 50$ with a membership
entitles you and your kids to
participate in story time. With the VIP
membership you get points to help
you save. Every 1 yuan is 1 point. 500
points will help you save 50$ off your
purchase. 262 Yuyuan Lu, by Beijing Xi
Lu (6248 9033) www.poplar.com.cn.
上海蒲蒲兰绘本馆 , 愚园路 262 号 .
Homeware
Annabel Lee 1) No 1, Lane 8
Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu (6320 0045)
2)Unit 3, House 3, North Block,
Xintiandi, Lane 181Taicang Lu (6320
0045) 1) 中山东一路 8 弄 1 号 . 2) 太仓
路 181 弄新天地北里 3 号楼 3 单元 .
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Shanghai (Tel: 86 21 3252 9103, Fax:
86 21 3250 9102). 上海徐汇区永嘉路
570 号 412 室 .
Greenwave Water Filters Provides
one-stop healthy water solutions
covering domestic and commercial
drinking water filter, shower filter,
faucet filter, laundry filter as well as
a few other selective water filters
meeting requirements based on
different furnishings. Free products
demo and water quality assessment
available within city proper. 318
Xiaowan Lu, Fengxian district (1362
1935 343 (English Speaking)) www.
greenwavechina.cn. service@
greenwavechina.cn. 奉贤区肖弯路
318 号 .
Alen Corp Asia Alen Corp China is
providing high performance indoor
air purifiers designed with not
only your health and well-being in
mind, but also your wallet. Rm 311,
710 Anyuan Lu, Jing’ an District,
Shanghai. 上海静安区安远路 710 号 3
楼 311 室 .
B&Q 1)118 Longwu Lu, by Longcao
Lu (6483 6611) 2)1318 Meichuan Lu
(5250 1000) 3)1616 Huangxing Lu, by
Songhuajiang Lu (5505 6611) 4)1800
Hutai Lu, by Wenshui Lu (6634 6262)
5)3228 Gonghe Xin Lu (3603 0099)
6)393 Yinxiao Lu, by Longyang Lu
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GELINCASA Gelincasa is a place to
transform your dream home into
reality, where original modern design
mingles with classic Shanghai
antiques. To accompany with Gelin
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nothing could be better than living in
a healthy and unique environment.
Explore more at www.gelincasa.com.
Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat-Sun 10am7pm, 577 Changde Lu (6253 5175)
designer@gelincasa.com, www.
gelincasa.com. 上海阁琳装饰有限公
司 , 常德路 577 号 ( 近新闸路 )
J4kids At J4KID and J4FURNITURE
you'll explore an exceptional world
of high quality furniture, textiles,
lighting, toys and decoration items
for children and adults. These are
products of astonishing diversity
and lasting value, classic modern
design and imbued all with a brand
that speaks to superb taste.Most of
our items are, or can be customized
Number one in style and quality
when it comes to custom made
modern design furniture. 1) PUXI
Showroom: Unit 2, 444 Hami Lu 200336 (00 86 (0)21 6242 9686) 2)
PUDONG Showroom: 3/F, 1501 Jinsui
Lu – 200336 (00 86 (0)21 2022 8358)
www.j4kid.com, www.j4furniture.
com. 1) 浦西 : 哈密路 444 号 2 单元 .2)
浦东 : 金穗路 1501 号 3 楼
J&R HOUSEHOLD CO.,LTD A
professional manufacturer of outdoor
patio furniture products. With over
ten years of experience producing
aluminum and wicker furniture J&R
Household Co are proud to be the
leading outdoor furniture producer in
China. Having extensive experience
in dealing with major international
customers J&R Household are fully
equipped to manage a variety of
order types. As a result of focusing
on quality control and work rate
efficiency J&R Household were
awarded an ISO9001 certification.
Show Room Address:2/F North, No 4,
Lane175 Suide Lu,Shanghai,China (Tel:
021-5107 0101/0123/1079*0) Email:
info@jrsh.cn.
639 号 ( 近青溪路 ).2) 上海徐汇区安
福路 167 号 .3) 上海青浦区高泾路 818
号.
LE REXO - From Standard to HighEnd Western & Chinese-style
furniture, LE REXO’ s pieces are all
100 percent made-to-order, custom
made and hand crafted from
precious woods like elm, rosewood,
ebony, sandalwood etc… LE REXO
also makes upholstered pieces like
armchairs and sofas in a variety of
sumptuous fabrics and leathers
and offer decorative Arts in limited
editions. 2F, N.20, Lane 383, South
Xiang Yang road (By Yong Jia Road).
(5213 0016) www.lerexo.com. WedSun, 11:00am-6:30pm 乐艺廊 , 上海
市徐汇区襄阳南路 383 弄 20 号 2 楼
( 近永嘉路 )
Ikea 126 Caoxi Lu, by Shanghai
Stadium (5425 6060) 宜家 , 漕溪路
126 号 , 近上海体育馆 .
Platane Home&Lifestyle Platane
combines traditional savoir faire,
worldwide design, home wares and
fashion accessories in a distinctive
simplicity and elegance. 1) 156Taikang
lu 泰康路 156 号 , (6466 2495) , 2)
439Wukang lu 武康路 439 号 , (6433
6387). www.platane.cn
Simply Life Simply Life is a lifestyle
shop continuouly offering new and
unique concepts and good quality
products to Shanghai lifeists. 1)159
Madang Lu (6387 5100) Sun - Thu
10:30am - 10pm Fri - Sat 10:30am 11pm. 2)9 Dongping Lu, by Hengshan
Lu (3406 0509) Mon – Sun 10am 10pm. 1) 马当路 159 号 .2) 东平路 9 号 ,
近衡山路 .
Studio FH This cool furniture and
lifestyle store sells classic-design
sofas and chairs, as well as highquality hi-fi electronics, at reasonable
prices. Hi-fi brands include Shanling,
Shengya, Mingda Tube Amp, élite
Speakers and Aurum Cantus
Speakers. 4/F, No 121, Lane 1520
Huashan Lu (6280 2388) www.studiofh.com. 华山路 1520 弄 121 号 4 楼 .
Villa Lifestyle 618 Gaojing Lu, Xujing
County, Qingpu (5119 1310) info@
villalifestyles.cn, www.villalifestyles.
cn. 别墅生活方式 , 上海市青浦区徐泾
镇高泾路 618 号 .
Real Estate Agents
Kava Kava Home 1)Hong Gu Store:
639 Honggu Lu, Changning District,
Shanghai (next to Qingxi Lu) (Tel
& Fax: 021 6270 9798) Opening
Hours: 9:30~ 18:00 (Everyday) 2)
Downtown Store: 167 Anfu Lu, Xuhui
District (Cross with Wulumuqi Lu)
(Tel & Fax: 021 5404 3873) Opening
Hours:9:30~18:00pm. 3) Gaojing
Store: 818 Gaojing Lu, Qingpu District,
(Between Huqingping Hwy. &
German French School) (Tel & Fax:
021 5988 9760). 1) 上海长宁区虹古路
Ark International – Orientation and
Housing for Expats Ark International
is a leading Orientation and Housing
Expert for foreign Individuals and
Families living in and relocating
to China. For a fine selection of
Shanghai’ s hottest apartments,
villas, duplexes, lane or garden houses
please visit www.arkshanghai.com,
or contact us directly under 021-6248
8464 and 021 6248 8465.
Prime Property Agency Prime
property agency aims to help
expatriates to or from Shanghai
finding a prime home economically
and efficiently, and to provide
value added service including City
Orientation, Rental Home Search,
Settling in Program, Immigration
Program, and Tenancy Management.
No. 8, Lane 1446 Yan'an Xi Lu (Tel:
8621 5258 9822, Fax: 8621 5258 9980,
137 6427 5311) www.shprimeproperty.
com service@shprimeproperty.com
延安西路 1446 弄 8 号
Shanghai GPS Real Estate provides
a complete relocation service
to Shanghai expatriates. With
thousands of property databases in
Shanghai, specialising in Old villas,
old apartments and lane houses in
the French concession. Also covering
the hottest apartments in both
Pudong and Puxi. Please call:Tel:
65218563 (working hours) Mobile:
13816178983 (24hours hotline)Email:
gps.shanghai@gmail.com B1, 2/F, 128
Huayuan Lu, Hongkou 虹口区花园路
128 号 1 栋 2 楼
Accommodation
Ascott Huai Hai Road Shanghai is
located in the most prestigious
commercial area of Shanghai. It is
just a short walk from the famous
Xintiandi, the city’ s premier lifestyle
and entertainment hub with a
myriad of restaurants, cafés, bars and
boutiques. No 282 Huaihai Zhong
Lu, Luwan District, Shanghai 200021,
China (Reservations Telephone 400
820 1028 (local toll- free), 86 512
6763 1020; Reservations Facsimile 86
512 6763 1022) GDS Chain Code UZ
enquiry.china@the-ascott.com. 上海
市卢湾区淮海中路 282 号 .
Central Residences II sits on
the Huashan Lu,offers 2 to 4
bedrooms and penthouse service
apartments, with sizes ranging from
approximately 135 square meters
to 580 square meters. With warm
colors, subtle textures and spacious
floor plans creating a feeling of
cozy simplicity, this luxurious
develop ment brings quality to life
at every turn. The five star health
club provides indoor swimming
pool, tennis and squash courts,
sauna and jacuzzi facilities for your
rejuvenation, while the 24 hour oncall security service and full-time
concierge ensure you privacy and
peace of mind. For details, please call
leasing department at 6226 6633 or
inquiry@kerryprops.com.cn. 上海市
华山路 1038 弄 .
Citadines Shanghai Biyun Lane 450
Hongfeng Lu, Jinqiao Export Processing
Zone, Pudong, Shanghai 201206, China
(Reservations Telephone 400 820
1028 (local toll-free), 86 512 6763 1020;
Reservations Facsimile 86 512 6763 1022)
(Telephone 86 21 3860 2288; Facsimile
86 21 3860 2000) GDS Chain Code UZ
enquiry.china@the-ascott.com. www.
citadines.com. 上海市浦东新区金桥加
工区红枫路 450 号 .
Citadines Shanghai Jinqiao 55 Beijing
Xi Lu, Huangpu District, Shanghai
200003, China Reservations
Telephone 400 820 1028 (local
toll-free) (86-512) 6763 1020
Reservations Facsimile (86-512) 6763
1022 Telephone (86-21) 2308 6666
Facsimile (86-21) 2308 6688 GDS
Chain Code UZ Email enquiry.china@
the-ascott.com. Website: www.
citadines.com
Fraser Residence Each of the 272
residences features a balcony from
where you can enjoy unparalleled
city views. When the excitement that
characterises vivacious Shanghai
gets too much to bear, return to
the cosy comfort offered by Fraser
Residence Shanghai. With designer
decor, innovative lifestyle concepts
and plush furnishings, you know
you have picked the right home for
you and your family. 98 Shouning
Lu, Shanghai, 200021 P. R. China
Reservation Hotline/ Toll Free:
800 820 2988 sales.frshanghai@
frasershospitality.com. www.
frasershospitality.com.
Fraser Suites Top Glory Shanghai is
situated in the bustling Lujiazui CBD
financial district along the romantic
Huangpu River offering unrivalled
luxury living with a spell-binding
panoramic view of the Bund and the
city. Each of the 317 lavishly-fitted
suites - three-bedroom (including
study), three-bedroom (with separate
study), and four-bedroom - offers
mesmerizing views of The Bund
and city complemented with chic
and contemporary interiors for a
truly enriching home experience
in style. No.1, Lane 600 Central
Yincheng Lu, Lujiazui, Pudong New
District, Shanghai (6378 8888) sales.
fsshanghai@frasershospitality.com.
上海市浦东新区陆家嘴银城中路 600
弄1号.
Lanson Place Jin Qiao Residences
Lanson Place Jin Qiao Residences is
in the vibrant Pudong New District.
The one- and two-bedroom homes
are close to expatriate communities,
international schools and European
supermarkets. With each residence
furnished in a comfortable residential
style, with a fully, fitted kitchen,
an entertainment centre and high
speed internet connections. Right
next to the property is a landscaped
garden over. 10,000sqm and a
complex of shopping, restaurants
and recreational facilities. No 18, Lane
399 Zaozhuang Lu, Pudong New
District, Shanghai 200136, China (Tel:
(86) 21 5013 3592 Fax: (86) 21 5013
9441) enquiry.lpjq@lansonplace.com.
www.lansonplace.com.
Modena Putuo Shanghai Ideally
situated in the heart of Zhenru
City (Shanghai), Modena Putuo
Shanghai redefines urban living with
a refreshing twist. Within walking
distance to Metro Station Line 7 and
only 10 minutes away from Shanghai
Train Station, inter-city travelers
now enjoy greater ease of travel.
Amenities are a stone ’ s throw away.
Modena Putuo Shanghai is also a
part of the City Economic Polymer, a
massive complex comprising of two
blocks of Grade A office buildings, a
large shopping mall and residential
towers. The 348 stylish loft-style
residences, ranging from studio to
two-bedroom options, are designed
and fitted with modern furnishings,
wireless internet access, offering
a convenient lifestyle suitable for
the road warriors. 021-6147 8888
, China sales.putuoshanghai@
modenaresidence.com www.
modenaresidence.com No.1 Lane
58, Tong chuan Road, Putuo District,
Shanghai 200333
Oakwood Residence Shanghai The
newly opened Oakwood Residence
Shanghai is located in Wuning Lu,
amidst a mixed use development
housing a shopping mall and an office
tower. The 112 well appointed studio,
1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments are
ideal for both short and long term
stays. Contemporary furniture,
comprehensive entertainment
system with LCD TV , DVD player and
stereo system, in-room safe, fully
equipped kitchen with electric stove,
refrigerator, toaster, coffeemaker,
microwave oven, complete set of
crockery, cutlery and cooking utensils,
and a washing machine and dryer
in every apartment, are just some of
the things to make your stay more
comfortable. 103 Wuning Lu, Putuo
District Shanghai 200063 China (Tel
86-21 6183 0830, Fax 86-21 6183 0888)
resshanghai@oakwoodasia.com.
www.oakwoodasia.com.
Royal Pavilion, located in the most
prestigious residential area, is
one of the furnished and serviced
apartments in heart of Shanghai.
Elite educational institutes,
consulates and CBD are also in close
proximity. Many top executives
of Fortune 500 corporations and
consulates have already moved in.
Both towers provide 3 to 4 bedrooms
and duplex living room, with sizes
ranging from approximately 213sq.
m to 458 sq.m. Our flats are also
available for short lease (minimum
30 days) which is a special program
for expo 2010. Besides we give you
exclusive membership into a firstclass sporting and recreational
activities. 688 Huashan Lu, Jingan
District, Shanghai (Leasing Hotline
86 21 62263316*218, 62499878;
Facsimile 86 21 62497567) leasing@
royalpavilion-shanghai.com. www.
royalpavilion-shanghai.com, www.
华山公寓 .com. 上海市静安区华山路
688 号 .
Somerset XuHui, Shanghai No
888 Shanxi Nan Lu, Xu Hui
District, Shanghai 200031, China
(Reservations Telephone 400 820
1028 (local toll-free), 86 512 6763 1020;
Reservations Facsimile 86 512 6763
1022) (Telephone 86 21 6466 0888;
Facsimile 86 21 6466 4646) GDS
Chain Code UZ enquiry.china@theascott.com. www.somerset.com. 上
海市徐汇区陕西南路 888 号 .
Moving + Shipping
ASIAN EXPRESS is an expert in
international, domestic, local household
goods and office moving, storage
and full relocation services. We have
been servicing the chinese mainland
since 1980, which makes us one of the
most experienced moving companies.
Call today and get an obligation FREE
quotation from our multilingual expat
staff. Tel: (021) 6258-2244 Fax: (021) 62584242 Email: shanghai@aemovers.com.
hk Website: www.aemovers.com.hk
BEYOND RELOCATION (core members
of the EUROMOVERS and IAM) - From
one box to full container loads, let us
carry the load for you! Services we offer:
international Door to Door Moving,
Local Moving, Groupage Service to US,
Europe, Asia and Australia, Home Search,
Corporate Relocation Package, Storage
and more. Call us for an obligation-free
estimate and find out what we have
to offer. Tel: +86 (0)21 3255 3762 E-mail:
china@beyond-relo.com Website: www.
beyond-relo.com
DHL GLOBAL FORWARDING –
Provides professional Door to
Door international, domestic, local
household goods and office moving
services, as well as warehousing and
record management. Tel: 2306 8047/
2306 8049 Fax: 2320 1950 Email: hhg.
china@dhl.com Contact: Joanna Hu
Restaurants
Asian
Bali Laguna Delicious vegetarianfriendly Indonesian cuisine and a
romantic setting. www.balilaguna.
com. 189 Huashan Lu, inside Jing’ an
Park (6248 6970) Daily 11am-12.30am.
华山路 189 号 ( 静安公园内 )
Coconut Paradise Housed in an
elegant French house with two floors,
a garden and a separate bar annex.
www.lostheaven.com.cn/main.html
coconutparadise38@gmail.com 38
Fumin Lu, by Yan’ an Zhong Lu (6248
1998) 5pm-10:20pm 富民路 38 号 , 近
巨鹿路
Gintei Teppanyaki Sushi All you
can eat hibachi-style cooking and
boatloads of cheap sushi. One of the
better teppanyaki joints in town. 75
Nanhui Lu, by Beijing Xi Lu (6218 1932)
Daily 11.30am-2pm, 5.30-10.30pm. 南
汇路 75 号 , 近北京西路
Haiku by Hatsune A perennial
Readers’ Choice Award winner. This
wildly popular restaurant is best
known for it’ s Cali-style sushi. 28B
Taojiang Lu, by Hengshan Lu (6445
0021) Sun-Thu 11.30am-2pm, 5.30pm10pm; Fri-Sat 11.30am-2pm; 5;30pmwww.thatsmags.com
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LISTINGS 指南
11pm. 桃江路 28 号乙 , 近衡山路
Lapis Thai Expect a romantic, dimly
lit,tropical setting, and unique Thai
style cuisine. 1)3F, No. 19, Lane 199
Fangdian Lu, inside Thumb Plaza,
by Ding Xiang Lu (5033 9223) Daiy
11.30am- 2.30pm; 6-10pm 2)285
Hunan Lu, by Gaoyou Lu (5466 3026)
Daily 11.30am-2.30pm; 6-10pm 3)No.
14, Lane 248 Taikang Lu, by Ruijin Er
Lu (6473 3989) Daily 11.30am-2.30pm;
6-10pm. 1) 芳甸路 199 号 19 号 3 楼 ,
大拇指广场 , 近丁香路 2) 湖南路 285
号 , 近高邮路 3) 泰康路 248 弄 14 号 ,
近瑞金二路
Nepali Kitchen Still the friendliest
service this side of Kathmandu. Enjoy
authentic food delivered with the
necessary spicy punch in a pleasant
atmosphere. 4 Lane 819 Julu Lu, by
Fumin Lu (5404 6281) Mon 6-11pm;
Tues-Sun 11am-2pm, 6-11pm 巨鹿路
819 弄 4 号 , 近富民路
Ooedo High quality sushi and
sashimi in a lovely surrounding. Book
on weekends, this place is usually
packed. 30 Donghu Lu, by Huaihai
Zhong Lu (5403 5877) Daily 11.30am2pm, 5.30-11pm. 东湖路 30 号 , 近淮
海中路
Punjabi Indian restaurant best known
for its bargain buffet spread of allyou-can-eat curries, kormas, koftas
and dals. 1)201, 3215 Hongmei Lu, by
Hongsong Dong Lu (6401 8989) Daily
10am-11pm 2)5F, 627- 635 Huaihai
Zhong Lu, by Sinan Lu (6472 5464)
Daily 11am-11.30pm 3)Shop 102, Expo
Plaza, 1079 Meihua Lu, by Fangdian Lu
(6075 1970) Daily 11am-11.30pm 4)N3,
No 12-20, Peace Square, Shuicheng
Lu, by Hongqiao Lu (6278 8626) Daily
11am-11.30pm. 1) 虹梅路 3215 弄 201 号 ,
近虹淞东路 2) 淮海中路 627-635 号 5
楼 , 近思南路 3) 浦东新区梅花路 1079
号博览会广场 102 号商铺 , 近芳甸路 4)
水城路 12-20 号和平广场 N3 室 , 近虹
桥路
Shari New Japanese cuisine served
with flair, plus a lovely outdoor
courtyard. 630 Yongjia Lu, by
Wulumuqi Lu (5466 0320) Daily 5pm2am. 永嘉路 630 号 , 近乌鲁木齐路
Simply Thai A perennial favorite in
the expat community for its classic
Thai entrees and innovative cocktails.
Orders of RMB50 or more get free
delivery within a certain range.
www.simplythai-sh.com enquiry@
simplythai-sh.com 1)5c Dongping
Lu, near Hengshan Lu (400 880
7729) Daily 11am-11pm 2)28 Hongmei
Entertainment Street, Lane 3338
Hongmei Lu (400 880 7729) Daily
11am-11pm 3)4/F, Shanghai IFC Mall 8
Century Avenue (400 880 7729) Daily
1oam-10pm 4)A6, Jinqiao Pudong
Green Sports & Leisure Center, 600
Lan Tian Lu, (400 880 7729) Daily
11am-11pm 5)Xintiandi North Block,
Lane 181 Taicang Lu, near Madang Lu
(400 880 7729) Daily 11am-12am 1) 徐
汇区东平路 5 号 C 座 ( 近岳阳路 ) 2)
闵行区虹梅路 3338 弄虹梅休闲街 28
号 ( 近延安西路 ) 3) 世纪大道 8 号 ,
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上海国金中心四层 4) 蓝天路 600 号
金桥浦东碧云体育休闲中心 A6 近碧
云路 , 地铁 4 号线龙阳路站 5) 卢湾区
马当路 159 号 ( 近太仓路 )
Tandoor Shanghai’ s first,
and arguably one of the best,
Indian eateries features dance
performances, first-class service,
great classic curries and tasty
tandoori meats. Jin Jiang Hotel, 59
Maoming Nan Lu, by Changle Lu
(6472 5494, 6258 2582*9371) Daily
11.30am-2pm, 5.30- 10.30pm. 茂名南
路 59 号 , 锦江饭店 , 近长乐路
Cafes
Baker & Spice 1/F, 195 Anfu Lu (5404
2733) 7am-9pm 安福路 195 号 1 楼
Kommune This bohemian cafe
decorated with Maoist kitsch, draws
an artsy crowd for weekend brunches
and evening drinks. Try their Swedish
meatballs. Seriously. Allcards info@
kommune.me The yard, Building 7,
Lan210 Taikang Lu, by Sinan Lu (6466
2416) Sun-Thurs 7:30am-12am, Fri-Sat
7:30am-1am 卢湾区泰康路 210 弄 7
号四合院田子坊内 ( 近瑞金二路 ), 近
思南路
Wagas A Shanghai fixture and a
regular winner of our Readers’ Choice
Awards, this trendy cafe serves
reliable, wholesome dishes and
coffee beverages. LG11A, Citic Square,
1168 Nanjing Xi Lu, by Shaanxi Bei Lu
(5292 5228) Daily 7am-10pm. All cards.
For more venues : http://www.wagas.
com.cn/ 沃歌斯 , 南京西路 1168 号 ,
中信泰福广场地下一层 11A, 近陕西北
路.
Chinese
1221 A consistent contender for our
Readers’ Choice Best Shanghainese
Award. This tucked-away restaurant
has a die-hard laowai following. 1221
Yan’ an Xi Lu, by Panyu Lu (6213 6585,
6213 2441) Daily 11am-2pm, 5-11pm 长
宁区延安西路 1221 号
Di Shui Dong Di Shui Dong is a
favorite among the expat crowd,
which should tell you something
about the authenticity of the food.
Expect adequate dishes with toned
down spice. 1)5 Dong Ping Lu, by
Hengshan Lu (6415 9448) Daily
11:30am-11:30pm 2)2/F, 56 Maoming
Nan Lu, by Changle Lu (6253 2689)
Daily 10am-12pm 3)626 Xianxia Lu, by
Shuicheng Lu (3207 0213) Daily 10am3am 1) 东平路 5 号 , 近衡山路 2) 茂名
南路 56 号 2 楼 , 近长乐路 3) 仙霞路
626 号 , 近水城路
Din Tai Fung This restaurant is
renowned throughout Asia for
their soup dumplings. They have
traditional pork-stuffed, but you may
as well try the ones with truffle. 1)1/
F, Peace Square, 18 Shuicheng Lu, by
Hongqiao Lu (6208 4188) Daily 11am2.45pm, 5-11pm. All cards. 2)3F, MIXC,
701Fuchun Lu, Hangzhou 3)Unit 201,
2/F Dragon Gate Mall, 168 Fangbang
Zhong Lu, by Sanpai Lou Lu (6334
1008) Daily 9am-10pm. All cards. 4)
Unit 24, 3F, Super Brand Mall, 168
Lujiazui Xi Lu (5047 8882) Daily 11am10pm. 5)Unit 318, 3/F Shanghai World
Financial Center, 100 Century Avenue,
Pudong 6)Xintiandi, No 11A, 2/F, 123
Xingye Lu (6385 8378) Daily 10am1am. All cards. 鼎泰丰 , 1) 水城路 12-20
号和平广场 1 楼 , 近虹桥路 .2) 杭州市
富春路 701 号 3 楼 .3) 方浜中路 168
号豫龙坊 2 楼 201 单元 , 近三牌楼路 .4)
陆家嘴西路 168 号正大广场 3F24 室 .5)
世纪大道 100 号 3 楼 317 单元 , 近 .6)
新天地 , 兴业路 123 号 2 楼 11A 室 .
Gu Yi Unlike other ramshackle Hunan
restaurants around town, the decor
at Gu Yi is almost as tasteful as the
fiery fare. Beware, this orgy of flavors
is not for the faint of heart. 1)87
Fumin Lu, by Julu Lu (6249 5628) Daily
11:30am-11:30pm 2)8F, 1618 Nanjing Xi
Lu, by Huashan Lu (6232 8377) Daily
11:30am-12am 1) 富民路 87 号 , 近巨鹿
路 2) 南京西路 1618 号 8 楼 , 近华山路
Lost Heaven Upscale Yunnanese
restaurant with a cool ambiance and
refined dishes. 1)17 Yan’ an Dong
Lu, by Sichuan Nan Lu (6330 0967)
Daily 12-2pm, 5pm-1am (last order
at 10.30pm) All cards. 2)38 Gaoyou
Lu, by Fuxing Xi Lu (6433 5126) Daily
11.30am-2pm, 5.30pm-10.30mn. All
cards. 1) 延安东路 17 号 , 近四川南路 .2)
高邮路 38 号 , 近复兴西路 .
Pin Chuan Pin Chuan prides itself on
serving Sichuanese dishes that are
low on oil and high on taste. This is
high-end, accessible spicy food - they
even have a wine list. 1)5/F, Plaza 66,
1266 Nanjing Xi Lu (400 820 7706)
Daily 10.30am-10pm 2)47 Taojiang Lu,
by Wulumuqi Nan Lu (400 820 7706)
Daily 11am- 2pm, 5-11pm 1) 静安区南
京西路 1266 号恒隆广场 5 楼 ( 南京西
路陕西北路 ) 2) 徐汇区桃江路 47 号 ,
近乌鲁木齐南路
Sichuan Citizen The people who
brought you Citizen Cafe and Bar
have gone native with this Sichuan
eatery. Here you’ ll find all the
classics amply spiced and served
in bamboo-clad dining room. 30
Donghu Lu, by Huaihai Zhong Lu
(5404 1235) Daily 11am-10.30pm. 东湖
路 30 号 , 近淮海中路
The Chinoise Story A unique
restaurant featuring radically fused
cooking styles. Lovely space. Expect
classic Chinese dishes served in
individual portions rather than family
style. GF, Cathay Building, Jin Jiang
Hotel, 59 Maoming Nan Lu (6445 1717)
11am-2:30pm, 6pm-10:30pm 茂名南
路 59 号锦江饭店北楼底层 , 近长乐路
Xin Ji Shi A restaurant with a nice
atmosphere and matching service,
offering a traditional yet creative
menu. 1)91 Huangjin Cheng Dao, by
Songyuan Lu (6219 5443) Daily 11am2pm, 5pm-9:30pm 2)2/F, 166 Lujiazui
Dong Lu, by Pudong Nan Lu (6841
9719) Daily 10am-10pm 3)No. 2, Lane
181 Taicang Lu, by Huangpi Lu (6336
4746) Daily 11am-2pm, 5pm-9:30pm
4)28 Taojiang Lu, by Hengshan Lu
(6445 0068) Daily 11am-11pm 5)41
Tianping Lu, by Huaihai Zhong Lu
(6282 9260) Daily 11am-12am 1) 黄金
城道 91 号 , 近宋园路 2) 陆家嘴东路
166 号 2 楼 , 近浦东南路 3) 太仓路 181
弄 2 号 , 近黄陂路 4) 桃江路 28 号 , 近
衡山路 5) 天平路 41 号 , 近淮海中路
Deli Shops
Baker&Spice Excellent fresh-baked
pastries and spot-on baguettes.
Brought to you from the makers of
Wagas. www.wagas.com.cn 1)195
Anfu Lu, by Wulumuqi Lu (5404 2733)
Daily 7am- 10.30pm. 2)Unit 118, 1/F,
Shanghai Center, 1376 Nanjing Xi Lu by
Xikang Lu (6289 8875) 1) 安福路 195
号 , 近乌鲁木齐路 2) 南京西路 1376 号
上海商城 1 楼 118 单元近西康路
Cheese & Fizz Offers an excellent
selection of cheese and French wine.
Light French main courses are also
available. 1)Unit 101, 119 Madang Lu,
North Block Xintiandi, by Taicang Lu
(6336 5823) Daily 10am-midnight. 1)
马当路 119 号 101 单元 , 新天地北里 ,
近太仓路
City Deli City Deli serves a variety
of sandwiches, burgers, and salads
including Steak & Cheese, Reuben,
and Turkey Avocado. www.citydeli.cn
6/F, Golden Eagle Mall, 278 Shanxi Bei
Lu by Nanjing Xi Lu (6288 3912) Daily
11am-9pm 陕西北路 278 号 6 楼 , 近
南京西路
Epicvre Wines and spirits imported
from France, delicious imported jams
and marmalades all make it worth a
visit to this gourmet shop/wine bar.
98 Xinle Lu,by Xiangyang Lu (5404
7719) Daily 10am- 11pm 新乐路 98 号 ,
近襄阳路
Feidan Reasonably priced western
grocery where you can grab groceries,
bread, beer and wine. Keep an eye out
for specials. They also deliver. www.
feidanfood.com 1)153 Anfu Lu, by
Wulumuqi Lu (5403 6991) Daily 8am10pm. 2)382-1 Dagu Lu, by Chengdu
Bei Lu (6340 0547) Daily 9.30am10pm 3)283 Jianguo Xi Lu, by Jiashan
Lu (6473 3194) Daily 9am-10pm. 4)332
Jinyan Lu, inside Shanghai Lujiazui
Center Palace (5059 3723) Daily
9.30am–10pm. 1) 安福路 153 号 , 近乌
鲁木齐路 2) 大沽路 382-1 号 , 近成都
北路 3) 建国西路 283 号 , 近嘉善路 4)
锦延路 332 号 , 陆家嘴中央公寓
Gourmet High class sweets and other
baked goodies. Pudong Shangri-La
Hotel, Level 1, Tower 2, 33 Fu Cheng
Lu, by Yincheng Lu (5888 2957) Daily
7.30am-8pm. 富城路 33 号 2 号楼 1 楼 ,
近银城东路 , 香格里拉酒店
New York City Deli See Delivery
section. www.citydeli.cn 1)614
Miaopu Lu, by Lingshan Lu (5018 5012)
Daily 10.30am-9.30pm. 2)103 Fujian
Nan Lu, by Jinling Dong Lu (6326
2835) Daily 10.30am-9.30pm. 1) 苗圃
路 614 号近灵山路 2) 福建南路 103 号 ,
近金陵东路
Slice This up-market deli/cafe
specializes in sandwiches and salads
with Mediterranean flare. 1)1)688 Bi
Yun Lu, by Lan An Lu, Pudong (3382
0653) Mon-Sat 8am-10pm; Sun 9am10pm. 2)1517 Huqingping Gong Lu,
by Zhuguang Lu (5988 7007) 9am9:30pm 1) 浦东新区碧云路 688 号 ,
近蓝桉路 . 2) 沪青平公路 1517 号近诸
光路
Delivery
City Deli City Deli serves a variety
of sandwiches, burgers, and salads
including Steak & Cheese, Reuben,
and Turkey Avocado. www.citydeli.cn
6/F, Golden Eagle Mall, 278 Shanxi Bei
Lu by Nanjing Xi Lu (6288 3912) Daily
11am-9pm 陕西北路 278 号 6 楼 , 近
南京西路
Element Fresh (5116 9887). Daily 7am10pm. Order.elementfresh.com
Elders Fine Foods An Aussie importer
specializing in quality meats, fresh
seafood and fine wines from the land
down under. www.elders.com.cn
Building 9, 550 Jinhai Lu, by Donghu
Lu, Jinqiao Industrial Park (3872 0368)
Daily 9am-6pm. 金桥工业区金海路
550 号 9 幢
iiiit! This casual cafe does great
sandwiches,salads, pizzas and
smoothies. We love their fast delivery.
www.iiiit.cn mel_gm@live.com 1)1/F
500 Guangdong Lu (6362 0567) MonFri 8am-9pm 2)99 Wulumuqi Zhong
Lu (5404 2837) 8am-9pm 1) 广东路
500 号世界贸易大厦 1 楼 2) 乌鲁木齐
中路 99 号
Mealbay Thanks to the company’ s
wide variety of participating
restaurants, you can order cuisine
that’ s French or from the
Philippines. Online service available.
www.mealbay.com.cn N/A (5158 0168)
Daily 10.30am-11.30pm.N/A
Mi Tierra Homemade fresh Mexican
food products delivered within
24 hours. www.tierramex.com.cn
www.tierramex.com.cn (6225 7639)
Mon-Fri 5-10.30pm, Sat-Sun 11am10.30pmwww.tierramex.com.cn
Pizza
California Pizza Kitchen Straight
from America’ s shopping mall to
Shangers. This chain-restaurant has
all the classic pizza, pasta and salad
favorites, plus some more Asian
oriented offerings. www.cpk.com.cn/
home_en.html 2/F, Bldg. 3, Lane 507,
Sinan Mansions, Fuxing Zhong Lu,
near Sinan Lu (021 5465 4800) Daily
11am-11pm. 卢湾区思南路 55 号思南
公馆 3 号 2 楼 ( 近复兴中路 )
Melrose Pizza A delightful pizza
chain that can be accessed all over
Shanghai. 1) No.2299 Yan An Rd. W.
, Shanghai Mart 2) No. 120 Hong
Gu Rd. 3) No.207-5 Mao Ming Rd.
South 4) No. 1180, Beijing Rd. W. 5)
No.141, Chengdu Rd. N. 6) No.218
Wusong Rd. BM tower 7) B.15, No.
999, Changshou Rd., Badminton Hall
in Da An Garden 8) No. 400, Pudian
Rd. Pudong 9) No.33, Zhe Qiao Rd.
Jinqiao Pudong 1) 世贸商城延安西路
2299 号 2) 虹古路 120 号 3) 茂名南路
207-5 4) 北京西路 1180 号近陕西路口
5) 成都北路 141 号 6) 吴淞路 218 号宝
矿大厦 7) 长寿路 999 号 15 栋羽毛球
馆 8) 浦东浦电路 400 号 9) 浦东浙桥
路 33 号 7/24, Free Delivery 400-88PIZZA (74992); 800-620-9797
New York Style Pizza The best NYC
style pizza in Shanghai. Think big,
thin crust pizzas loaded down with
toppings. Well priced, and can be sold
by the slice. 1)336 Hongfeng Lu, by
Biyun Lu (3872 6606) Daily 10.30am10.30pm. 2)Shop J16, 1699 Nanjing Xi
Lu, by Huashan Lu (6247 2265) Daily
11.30am- 10.30pm. 3)Rm. 150, 1138
Pudong Nan Lu (3868 2738) Daily
10.30am-10.30pm. 4)No. 23, Lane 248
Taikang Lu, by Ruijin Er Lu (6247 2265)
Daily 9.30am-10.30pm. 1) 浦东金桥红
枫路 336 号 , 近碧云路 2) 南京西路
1699 号静安寺广场 J16, 地铁 2 号线 5
出口 3) 浦东南路 1138 号 150 室 4) 太
康路 248 弄 23 号甲
Pizza Marzano An international chain
featuring classic, Italian-style thin
crust pizzas topped with fresh, quality
ingredients. www.pizzamarzano.com
info@pizzamarzano.com 1)Xintiandi
South Block, 380 Huangpi Nan Lu
(5383 3999) Daily 11am-11.30pm.
2)Suite 107, Shanghai Center,1376
Nanjing Xi Lu (6289 8733) 1) 黄陂南
路 380 号 , 新天地南面 2) 南京西路
1376 号上海商城西峰 107 号
Sunday Brunch
Andaz Shanghai a Hyatt Hotel is
located in Xintiandi with 307 guest
rooms and suites. Sunday brunch
at Hai Pai restaurant starts with
a visit to an appetizer buffet of
fresh seafood chilled on ice, beef
tartar, charcuterie, foie gras terrine,
and more. For hot dishes, you can
choose from the à la carte brunch
menu for omelettes, eggs Benedict,
seafood gratin, shrimp, spicy cod,
spicy Sichuan chicken, pan-fried
veal tenderloin and lobster risotto.
After that, a trip to the dessert
buffet for éclairs, crème brulée,
chocolate cake, seasonal fruits, and
more. 288rmb+15% per person. For
brunch plus free-flow Perrier Jouet
champagne, 588rmb+15% per person.
Children 6-12 years old, 144rmb+15%.
Every Sunday from 1130 am to 3 pm.
Level 1, Hai Pai Restaurant Andaz
Shanghai, 88 Songshan Road (2310
1700) www.andazshanghai.com 嵩山
路 88 号上海安达仕酒店一楼海派餐
厅
Azur Restaurant Seafood Sunday
Brunch features traditional
Mediterranean-style offerings and
South East Asian dishes. It includes
fish, seafood, meat, pizza, vegetarian
and any traditional tastes, as well
as Chinese BBQ Station, Chinese
traditional seafood hot dishes, and
Japanese Sushi & Sashimi Station.
The buffet costs RMB 288++ per
person include unlimited Prosecco
Sparkling Wine, juices and soft drinks.
Every Sunday 12:00pm-2:30pm. 26/
F, Renaissance Shanghai Zhongshan
Park Hotel, 1018 Changning Lu (6115
8818). 长宁路 1018 号上海龙之梦万丽
酒店 26 楼 .
Cachet A wide selection of
international and Asian cuisine is
available at Cachet’ s live cooking
stations. In addition, Chef Albert
prepares his Spanish specialty dishes
such as paella, tapas and tortillas
served family style. Indoor and
outdoor seating is available. RMB350
includes free-flow soft drinks and
juice, RMB480 includes sangria and
premium wines, RMB580 gets you
everything plus free-flow Laurent
Perrier Champagne. 11:30am-2:30pm.
The Langham, Xintiandi, Shanghai,
99 Madang Lu (2330 2288). 凯旋 , 上
海市新天地马当路 99 号上海新天地
朗廷酒店内 .
Café 1188 The Sunday Brunch
features seafood, carvery, global food,
grill and dessert showcase, set in
interactive open show kitchen and
1930s historical villas with indoor and
outdoor dining. RMB298 including
soft drinks, RMB398 including soft
drinks, beer, wine and sparkling wine,
RMB498 including soft drinks, beer,
wine and champagne. Prices exclude
15% service charge. Children 4-12
years old will get 50% discount on the
prices, children under 4 years old eat
free. 11:30am–3:00pm. Lobby level,
InterContinental Shanghai Expo, 1188
Xueye Lu, Pudong (3858 1188). 浦东雪
野路 1188 号上海世博洲际酒店 1 楼 .
Dining Room From live Boston Lobster
to foie gras and many other delicacies
made to order, Lobster Brunch has
something luxurious for everyone.
RMB 580 per person and only an
extra RMB 300 to include free-flow
Perrier Jouet Champagne. Served
from 11:30am onwards every Sunday.
All prices are subject to 16% service
charge. 87/F, Park Hyatt Shanghai,
100 Century Avenue (6888 1234 ext.
4335) www.parkhyattshanghai.com.
上海浦东新区世纪大道 100 号上海柏
悦酒店 87 楼 .
Essence stages a brunch festival
of great food choices, fine wines,
Champagne, children’ s activities
and entertainment. RMB 298 per
person, plus RMB 100 for free flowing
champagne, wines and beer. Children
under 6 - free. Children between
6 and 12 - half price. All prices are
subject to 15% service charge. 1/F,
Tower 2, Hilton Shanghai Hongqiao,
1116 Hongsong Dong Lu (3323 6571).
元 , 红松东路 1116 号虹桥元一希尔顿
酒店 2 座 1 楼 .
Eton Café Live entertainment, magic
show and folk artists complement
Tempura station, sashimi and sushi,
free flow wine and soft drink. Meat
and seafood are freshly selected daily
from the market. Sunday Brunch
Buffet Feast free or half price for
kids RMB 228 + 15% service charge
per person including free flow of
wine, beer and soft drink, RMB 298
+ 15% service charge per person
including free flow of Champagne
and soft drink. Every Sunday
11:00am-15:00pm. 3/F, The Eton
Hotel Shanghai, 535 Pudong Avenue,
Pudong New Area (3878 9888 ext.
6330). 裕景咖啡厅 , 浦东新区浦东大
道 535 号上海裕景大饭店 3 楼 .
Feast Restaurant Sunday Family
Brunch features eight food stations
which include cold counter -- salads,
cold appetizers, fresh seafood bar,
sushi & sashimi; hot counter; soups,
breads, & cheeses counter; pastas
& wood fired pizzas counter; noodle
& dim sum counter; BBQ counter -grilled meats & seafood; desserts
counter and bar counter. RMB 298
– RMB 498 net per person inclusive
of assorted beverages and special
price for children who are 4-12
years old (RMB150 net per person)
and no charge for children under
3. Every Sunday 11:30am-14:30pm.
1/F, Sheraton Shanghai Hotel &
Residences Pudong, 38 Pujian Lu
(5089 9999 ext. 2240). 盛宴西餐厅 ,
浦建路 38 号上海浦东喜来登由由酒
店及公寓 1 楼 .
Holiday Inn Shanghai West Offers
sumptuous seafood, sizzling
BBQ, varieties of hot dishes,
mouthwatering desserts every
Sunday. RMB198 net with free-flow
of soft drinks and local beer (Exclusive
of wine and champagne), free for kids
0-6 years old, half price for 7-12 years
old. Every Sunday 11:00am-14:30pm.
2000 Huqingping Lu, Qingpu (3973
8288). 上海西郊假日酒店 , 沪青平公
路 2000 号 .
Jade on 36 All the brunch creations
are made with fresh seasonal
produce and premium ingredients.
Guests can also enjoy an unlimited
flow of Moet et Chandon
champagne, red and white wines,
frozen fruit flavoured margaritas and
lime daiquiris, imported beer, juices
and mocktails. RMB638 + 15% service
charge per person. Every Sunday
11:30am-3pm. Pudong ShangriLa, Shanghai, 33 Fucheng Lu (6882
8888 ext. 6888) fbreservation.slpu@
shangri-la.com. 上海浦东富城路 33
号上海浦东香格里拉大酒店内 .
Le Bistrot All Day Dining Restaurant
At La Vie en Rose, the caviar, foie
gras and fresh seafood are only the
beginning to a beautiful Sunday.
Parents and Children both enjoy
Le Bistrot’ s Kids Corner. La Vie en
Rose Sunday Brunch is RMB438 per
person including unlimited flow of
Mumm Brut, or RMB 538 for Mumm
Rosé, 12pm-3pm every Sunday. Prices
exclude 15% service charge. Le Royal
Meridien Shanghai, 789 Nanjing
Dong Lu (3318 9999 ext. 7007). 南京
东路 789 号上海世茂皇家艾美酒店内 .
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Le Café Big Blue Brunch includes free
flow of fine wines and champagne,
cocktails, a sumptuous buffet offering
and complimentary access to the
hotel's indoor swimming pool and
gym facilities. Offer is RMB 398 + 15%
service charge per person valid every
Saturday & Sunday from 11:30am2:30pm inclusive of unlimited
champagne, wine, cocktails and
beverages. Children below 12 years
old are RMB 160+ per person inclusive
of soft drinks, juice and kidtails. Le
Meridien She Shan Shanghai, 1288
Linyinxin Lu, Sheshan National
Tourism Resort (5779 9999 ext. 7722).
上海佘山国家旅游度假区林荫新路
1288 号上海世茂佘山艾美酒店 .
Marriott Café Each Sunday from
11:30am to 2:30pm, the Marriott Café
hosts one of the most sumptuous
banquets in all of Shanghai. Sunday
brunch buffet with a free flow of
Champagne costs RMB 458 (plus 15%
surcharge). 38/F, JW Marriott Hotel
Shanghai, 399 Nanjing Xi Lu (5359
4969 ext. 6422). 万豪咖啡厅 , 南京西
路 399 号上海明天广场 JW 万豪酒店
38 楼 .
Nadaman presents a new Sake
Yaki brunch. The menu includes a
premium selection of dishes focusing
on teppanyaki, and tempura, sashimi
and other appetisers are available.
From the Sake Bar, a line-up of drinks
are paired to complement the array
of Sake Yaki brunch dishes. Saturdays
and Sundays11:30am-2:30pm. RMB
388 including 15% service charge per
person. Pudong Shangri-La, Shanghai,
33 Fucheng Lu (6882 8888 ext. 6888)
fbreservation.slpu@shangri-la.com.
上海浦东富城路 33 号上海浦东香格
里拉大酒店内 .
O2on2 Sunday Jazz Brunch includes
additional minute beef steak, chicken
vegetable skewer, snow crab, scallops
in half shell and much more, with live
jazz band. The Sunday Jazz Brunch
package prices: RMB 468 net per
person -- free flow soft drink, juice,
red and white wine, local beer and
champagne. RMB 268net per person -free flow soft drink and juice. Free for
children under 8 years old. Fantastic
fun corner for kids. 2/F, The Longemont
Shanghai, 1116 Yan ’ an Xi Lu (6115 9988
ext. 8220) 全日餐厅 , 延安西路 1116 号
上海龙之梦丽晶大酒店 2 楼 .
On The River Café Sunday Brunch –
Buy Two get One Free. RMB 328 + 15%
surcharge including free flow of soft
drinks, Tiger draught beer and Chile,
Argentina house wine, free flow of
Spanish sparkling wine or Italian
sparkling wine if pay extra RMB 80
+ 15% surcharge. 1/F, Gran Meliá
Shanghai, 1288 Lujiazui Ring Lu (3867
8888 ext. 6048). 浦东新区陆家嘴环路
1288 号上海新天哈瓦那大酒店 1 楼 .
Pentalounge A European-style lazy
brunch is on offer at pentalounge.
To complement your experience, a
choice of main course will be cooked
to order and served to your table.
From 11am to 4pm (Every Saturday
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and Sunday). RMB 98 per person,
RMB 158 per person with a glass of
Chandon, RMB 68 per child (12 years
and younger). Pentahotel Shanghai,
1525 Dingxi Lu, Changning District
(6252 1111) www.pentahotels.com.cn.
贝尔特酒廊 , 长宁区定西路 1525 号上
海贝尔特酒店内 .
Radisson Blu Hotel Pudong Century
Park Churrasco Brazilian Barbecue
Brunch, the traditional foods of
the gaucho’ s featuring beef, pork,
poultry and sausages, flavored with
salts or marinated on skewers and
then char-grilled over hot coals and
accompanied by molho a campanha
(hot sauce). The barbecue is the
centrepiece of a full buffet features
cold seafood, salads, hot and cold
Western and Asian dishes. Every
Sunday 11:30am-14:30pm. Adults
RMB 168, Children RMB 88, inclusive
of 1 draught beer or soft drink.
Price subject to 15% surcharge. 1199
Yingchun Lu Pudong (5130 0000 ext.
4009). 上海证大丽笙酒店 , 浦东迎春
路 1199 号 .
Sheraton Shanghai Hongqiao Hotel
An all-you-can-eat surf and turf
brunch buffet especially suited to
families. Each Sunday from 11:30am2pm. RMB 288 +15% surcharge,
including free flow of sparkling wine,
RMB 368 +15% surcharge, including
free flow of champagne. 5 Zunyi Nan
Lu (6275 8888 Ext. 4814). 虹桥喜来登
上海太平洋大饭店 , 遵义南路 5 号 .
Western
Abbey Road Come for the tasty
brews and pub grub, stay for the
bamboo garden in the shade. www.
abbeyroad-shanghai.com. 45 Yueyang
Lu, by Dongping Lu (6431 6787) MonFri 4pm-2am, Sat-Sun 10am-2am 岳
阳路 45 号 , 近东平路 .
Anadolu Anadolu is both a sit-down
restaurant and fast food joint that
serves elegant teas and dishes for
dine-in and sports a take-away
counter that’ s open until 5 am.
1)4-7 Hengshan Lu, by Wulumuqi Lu
(5465 0977) Sun-Thurs 11am-2am;
Fri-Sat 11am-5am. 2)156 Xingye Lu, by
Madang Lu (5306 7765) Daily 10am11pm. 1) 衡山路 4-7 号 , 近乌鲁木齐路
2) 兴业路 156 弄 1 号 1 楼 , 近马当路 .
Blue Marlin Bar & Restaurant Suzhou
transplant offering international
cuisine and live music. 689 Lan
Tian Rd. Green City Jinqiao Pudong
Shanghai, opposite Decathlon (5030
5255) 10.30am – 2am, 浦东金桥碧云
社区蓝天路 689 号 ( 迪卡侬对面 ).
Briccocafe They provide a menu
stacked with fresh, well-priced
Italian dishes and a wide range of
Italian wine. 1)158 Chengdu Nan Lu,
by Huaihai Zhong Lu (6387 9188) 2)
International Airside B10, Terminal 1,
Hongqiao Airport. Daily 10am-12am 1)
成都南路 158 号 , 近淮海中路 2) 虹桥
机场国内出发禁区 B10 登机口 , 近空
港二路
Da Marco This long-time institution
serves great pizzas and sports a
constantly packed house. 1)103
Dongzhu’ anbang Lu, by Zhenning Lu
(6210 4495) Daily 12pm-11pm 2)164A
Grand Gateway Mall, No 1 Hongqiao
Lu, by Huashan Lu (6447 7577) Daily
10am- 11pm. 3)350-354 Yushan Lu,
by Mingsheng Lu (5860 8170) Daily
12pm-11pm. 1) 东诸安浜路 103 号 , 近
镇宁路 2) 虹桥路 1 号港汇广场 164A,
近华山路 3) 浦东新区羽山路 350-354
号 , 近民生路
Dolce Vita Prime, pricey Italian food
in the French Concession. 291 Fumin
Lu, by Changle Lu (6170 1318) Daily
12pm- 2:30pm; 6pm-12am (10.30pm
last order) 富民路 291 号 , 近长乐路
Element Fresh Light, healthy, modern
cuisine, including Western fare and
Asian sets. www.elementfresh.com
1)1/F, No. 163, Grand Gateway Mall,
1 Hongqiao Lu (6407 5992) Sun-Thu
7am-11pm, Fri-Sat 7am-12am 2)Green
City, 331 Hongfeng Lu (3382 1700) SunThur 7am-11pm, Fri-Sat 7am-11:30pm
3)1/F 2088 Yanan Xi Lu (6083 7436)
Sun-Thur 7am-11pm, Fri-Sat 7am11:30pm 4)Rm.112, Shanghai Centre,
1376 Nanjing Xi Lu (6279 8682) MonFri 7am-11pm; Sat-Sun 7am-12am 5)2/
F, Shanghai World Financial Center,
100 Century Avenue (6877 4001) SunThu 7am-11pm, Fri-Sat 7am-12am 6)6/
F, Silver Court office & apartments,
228 Xizang Nan Lu (6334 3598) Daily
7am-11pm 7)1/F Super Brand Mall,
168 Lujiazui Xi Lu (5047 2060) SunThu 7am-11pm, Fri-Sat 7am-12am
8)4/F, Kwah Restaurant Centre, 1028
Huaihai Zhong Lu (5403 8865) SunThu 7am-11pm, Fri-Sat 7am-12am 1)
虹桥路 1 号港汇广场 1 楼步行街 2) 浦
东碧云社区红枫路 331 号 3) 延安西路
2088 号 1 楼 4) 南京西路 1376 号上海
商城 112 室 5) 世纪大道 100 号环球金
融中心 87 楼 6) 西藏南路 228 号 6 楼 7)
陆家嘴西路 168 号正大广场西门 1 楼
8) 淮海中路 1028 号嘉华中心 4 楼
Franck Classy yet casual, and perhaps
a touch overpriced, owner Franck is
obsessed with quality and it shows.
As authentic a bistro as you’ ll find
in Shanghai. Ferguson Lane, 376
Wukang Lu, by Hunan Lu (6437 6465)
Tue – Sun 6-10.30pm, Sat – Sun 12nn2.30pm, closed on Mondays. 武康路
376 号 , 近湖南路
Las Tapas Typical Spanish tapas served
in a pleasant, if slightly predictable,
atmosphere. 1)259 Hongfeng Lu, by
Biyun Lu (3382 1686) Daily 11am-12am
2)House 33, Hongmei Entertainment
Street, 3338 Hongmei Lu (6465 8345)
Daily 11am-12am 3)207 Maoming Nan
lu (6415 9567) Daily 11am-12am 1) 红
枫路 259 号 , 近碧云路口 2) 虹梅路
3338 弄 33 号别墅 , 近延安西路 3) 茂
名南路 207-4 号
M on the Bund This Bund pioneer
serves up impeccable service and a
menu peppered with Continental,
Aussie and Moroccan inspiration.
Try the pavlova for dessert. 7/F, No.
5 The Bund, 20 Guangdong Lu, by
Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu (6350 9988)
Mon-Fri 11.30am-2.30pm;6.1510.30pm; Sat-Sun 11.30am-3pm; 6.1510.30pm. 广东路 20 号 7 楼 , 近外滩
中山东一路 , 外滩 5 号
Malone’s Popular American-style bar
and grill and 2009 Readers’ Choice
Award winner for Best Pub. Come for
the burgers, stay for the live music
and televised sport www.malones.
com.cn malones@malones.com 255
Tongren Lu (6247-2400) Daily 11am2am 铜仁路 255 号
Maya Voted “Best Latin American
Cuisine” in our 2009 Readers’ Choice
Awards,Maya was arguably the
first restaurant in Shanghai to start
doing Mexican right. 568 Julu Lu, bu
Shaanxi Nan Lu (6289 6889) Daily
5pm-late; kitchen closes 10.30pm; bar
food until 11pm. 巨鹿路 568 号 , 近陕
西南路
Mexico Lindo Cantina & Grill Colorful
Mexican and Tex-Mex restaurant that
serves great margaritas. Live music on
Friday and Saturday nights. Hongmei
Pedestrian Street Unit 39, Lane 3338
Hongmei Lu (6465 9336) Mon-Thurs
4pm-12am; Fri-Sat 11am-12am 虹梅路
3338 弄 39 号 , 虹梅休闲街 .
Mr. & Mrs. Bund Molecular madman
Paul Pairet takes a more laissez-faire
approach with this modern French
eatery. Expect straightforward food
and a great wine list. www.mmbund.
com 6F, Bund 18, Zhongshan Dong
Yi Lu, by Nanjing Dong Lu (6323
9898) Sun- Mon 6.30-10.30pm; TuesSat 6.30pm- 4am(dinner); Mon-Fri
11.30am-2pm (lunch) 中山东一路 , 外
滩 18 号 6 楼 , 近南京东路
Mythos A Greek-style taverna with
cute,kitschy decor, a selection of
standard, rather pricey fare and
sparkling views of the Huangpu
River. The Cool Docks, Bldg 6, 479
Zhongshan Nan Lu, The Bund, by
Fuxing Dong Lu (6152 6755) Daily
10am-12am 中山南路 479 弄 6 号楼 ,
近复兴东路
Pasta Fresca Da Salvatore Competent,
classic Italian fare in large portions at
reasonable prices. 1) Rm49, Thumb
Plaza, 199 Fangdian Lu, by Dingxiang
Lu (5033 9001) Mon-Thu 11.30am2.30pm, 5.30pm-10.30pm; Fri- Sun
11.30am-11pm 2)4 Hengshan Lu,
by Wulumuqi Nan Lu (6473 0772)
Mon-Fri 11.30am-2.30pm, 5.30pm11pm; Sat-Sun 11.30am-11pm 3)3896
Hongmei Lu, by Hongqiao Lu (6262
5620) Daily 11.30am- 2.30pm, 5.30pm10.30pm 1) 芳甸路 199 号大拇指广场
49 室 2) 衡山路 4 号 , 近乌鲁木齐南
路 3) 虹梅路 3896 号 , 近虹桥路
Paulaner Brauhaus Beer and Bavarian
food feature heavily in this warm
and well-populated venue. Usually
features a live band. 1)Binjiang Da
Dao, Fu Du Duan, by Pudong ShangriLa Hotel (6888 3935) Sun-Thurs 11am1am, Fri-Sat 11am-2am 2)3F, 555 Expo
Avenue, by Xueye Lu, Pudong New
Area (2206 0555) Sun-Thurs 11am1am, Fri-Sat 11am-2am 3)150 Fenyang
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awake our body.Sunny massage
offers special and amazing chinese
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which has last for throusand years,to
help client relax musal to improve
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circulation. 1) 251 Guangxi Bei Lu
(6322 3991) 11am-2am 2) 500 Dagu
Lu, by Shimen Yi Lu (6340 0636)
11am-2am 1) 广西北路 251 号 2) 大沽
路 500 号 , 近石门一路
Yu Massage 366 Wuyuan Lu (5403
9931) 11-2am. 愉庭保健会所 , 上海五
原路 366 号 , 靠近武康路口 .
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F, Bldg B, 100 Hongqiao Lu (3228 3555)
1) 威海路 359 号 .2) 太仓路 181 弄 9
号 1 座 .3) 遵义路 100 号虹桥上海城 B
栋 2 楼 2-3-4 单元 .
Yoga
Karma Life Yoga This large newly
renovated high-end studio in Pudong
offers a diverse range of styles and
classes, including Ashtanga, Anusara,
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The teachers are top notch and
international, with world-renowned
visiting guest teachers offering
workshops and teacher trainings.
Classrooms are spacious and bright,
and changing areas are clean and
stylish. Classes taught in both
Chinese and English.160 Pucheng Lu,
by Shangcheng Lu. Daily 9am-10pm
(5882 4388/ 150 0003 0588, www.
karmayoga.com.cn) 浦城路 160 号 ,
近商城路
Y+ Yoga Centre Whether you are
looking to develop your spiritual
wellbeing, body toning or just
socialise with the hip young crowd,
Y + Yoga Centre will have the right
class for you. 1) Y+ Anfu Lu New
Studio Presentation Gallery, 1/
F, 322 Anfu Lu, by Wukang Lu (189
1774 1985) 2) Y+ Xintiandi Studio,
2/F, 202 Hubin Lu, by Shunchang
Lu (6340 6161) Daily, 7.30am 8.45pm 3) Y+ Fuxing Lu Studio,
2/F, Bldg2, 299Fuxing Xi Lu, by
Huashan Lu (6433 4330) Daily,
6.45am - 8.45pm(www.yplus.com.cn,
Customerservice@yplus.com.cn) 1)
Y+ 安福新店展示中心 : 安福路 322 号
1 楼 , 近武康路 2) Y+ 新天地会所 : 湖
滨路 202 号 2 楼 , 近顺昌路 3)Y+ 复
兴路会所 : 复兴西路 299 号 2 号楼 2
楼 , 近华山路
Yogi Yoga No. 1, Lane 22 Fumin Lu
(6248 5848, 6248 0378) shanghai@
yogiyogacenter.com www.yogiyoga.
cn 富民路 22 弄 1 号 .
Hairdressers
Barbers by Three Barbers by Three
provides a superior salon and
grooming service in ultra-private
cubicles. 2/F Three on the Bund, 3
Zhongshan Dong Yi Lu (6321 6622)
Monday-Sunday 10.00-22.00. 中山东
一路 3 号 , 外滩三号 2 楼 .
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Beijing Hair Culture 1)4/F, Hilton
Shanghai, 250 Huashan Lu (6249
7228) 2)No5, 2/F, Corporate Avenue,
222 Hubin Lu (6340 6822) 北京美发沙
龙 , 1) 华山路 250 号希尔顿酒店 4 楼 .2)
湖滨路 222 号企业天地 .
Benson Salon 1)1119 Jiangning Lu,
by Xinhui Lu (6266 9861) www.
bensonsalon.com. 2)778 Jiangning Lu,
by Haifang Lu (6277 8778) 1) 江宁路
1119 号 ( 靠近新会路口 ).2) 江宁路 778
号 ( 靠海防路口 ).
Bleu Lee Canadian-born Chinese
Stylist, now based in Shanghai. Has
11 years experience in make-up and 9
years experience in Styling. Bleu has a
team of stylists that provide services
in make-up, hair and wardrobe
styling. (138 1675 5799) bleulee@
hotmail.com http://www.bleuvisual.
com/
Eric Paris Well-trained international
stylists and colourists ensure you
receive the premium hair products
and services that all uniquely
individualised. Also experience our
wonderful beauty, nail, waxing and
tanning services. 1) 3N04-05, 3/F
Jinmao Tower, 88 Century Avenue (137
6139 0706) 10am-8pm. 2) 4 Hengshan
Lu (137 6139 0605) 爱丽克 , 1) 浦东世
纪大道 88 号金贸大厦 3 楼 3N04-05 2)
衡山路 4 号 .
Franck Provost Leading global hair
salon featuring highly trained
stylists and colourists. Prices start
from RMB200 for cutting and
treatment, and RMB380 for perms
and colouring. 1)No 4, 1/F, 35 Shanxi
Nan Lu, by Changle Lu (6267 5171)
Daily 10am-10pm. 2) 3182 Hongmei
Lu, by Cheng Jiao Qiao Zhi Lu (6446
6928) Daily 10 am-10pm 3) 4/F, Grand
Gateway, 1 Hongqiao Lu, by Huashan
Lu (6407 3172) daily 10 am-10pm,
www.frankprovost.com. 1) 卢湾区陕
西南路 35 号一楼 4 号商铺 ( 长乐路
路口 ) 2) 闵行区虹梅路 3182 号 , 近程
家桥路 3) 上海港汇店 , 虹桥路 1 号港
汇广场 4 楼 466 商铺 , 近华山路 .
Gorgeous Shadows Hair Salon
Relatively new hair salon with
professional stylists. 1/F, Hua Cheng
Tower, 601 Zhangyang Lu, Pu Dong
(5137 9783) 10am-10pm. 浦东张杨路
601 号华城大厦国际美食城 1 层 .
Mirage.M Hairdressing and Makeover
has a team trained from London
and Singapore. Specialize in
European and Asian haircut & colour.
Exclusively use Wella and Organics
products. The Cooldocks,Bldg
11,unit 101. 505 Zhongshannan lu,by
Fuxing Dong lu (6152 6762) www.
miragemhairmakeup.com
m.i.c Salon 1) Rm 10, 5/F, Channel One,
155 Changshou Lu (3131 5145) 2) Rm 2,
2/F, Hongqiao Parkson, 100 Zunyi Lu
(6237 0083) 1) 长寿路 155 号 5 楼 10
座 .2) 遵义路 100 号 , 上海城 ( 虹桥百
盛 )2 楼 ,2 单元 .
Tiffany 1)A15-A16,1211 Shiji Da Dao
(6876 0486) 2)B1, Grand Gateway, 1
Hongqiao Lu (6407 8589) 3)Raffles
City, B1, 268 Xizang Zhong Lu, by
People’ s Square (6340 3006) 蒂梵
尼造型设计 , 1) 浦东世纪大道 1211 号
A15-A16 室 .2) 虹桥路 1 号 , 港汇广场
地下一层 .3) 西藏中路 268 号莱福士
广场地下一楼 , 近人民广场 .
Toni & Guy Salons Shanghai 1)B2/
F, Super Brand Mall, 168 Lujiazui Xi
Lu (5047 2298) 2) Green City Jinqiao,
376 Hongfeng Lu, Pudong (5030 5521)
3) L515-516,Times Square Shopping
Mall, 99,Huaihai Zhong Lu (53513606)
4)Suite 209, Shanghai Center, 1376
Nanjing Xi Lu (6279 8806) 汤尼英盖
专业美发 1) 陆家嘴西路 168 号正大广
场 B2.2) 浦东金桥碧云国际社区 , 红
枫路 376 号 .3) 淮海中路 99 号大上海
时代广场 .4) 南京西路 1376 号 209 室 .
Vidal Sassoon Salon & Academy
Shanghai Unit 2, Bldg 16, Xintiandi,
181 Taicang Lu (6311 2151) 沙宣 ( 上海 )
美发研修中心 , 太仓路 181 弄 16 号楼
2 单元 .
Wanglei 1)2/F, Central Plaza, 387
Huaihai Zhong Lu, by Madang Lu
(6391 5525) 2)5/F, Isetan, 1038 Nanjing
Xi Lu, by Jiangning Lu (6272 3127) 3)5/
F, Jiuguang City Plaza, 1618 Nanjing Xi
Lu (6288 0113) 王磊形象公社 1) 淮海
中路 387 号中环广场 2 楼 , 近马当路 .2)
南京西路 1038 号梅龙镇伊势丹 5 楼 .3)
南京西路 1618 号久光百货 5 楼 .
Shopping
App arel
Ben Zhou Handmade Shoes Studio
Custom-made shoes in retro, modern
and classic designs for both men
and women. Customers are invited
to bring in photos of their dream
shoe so that professional cobblers
can craft the perfect pair. 1) Rm 112,
90-1 Nanyang Lu, by Xikang Lu 2) B148, Luocheng Plaza, 1665 Hongqiao
Lu, by Shuicheng Lu (138 1788 7660,
136 3658 0300) woman shoes start
from RMB 650, man from RMB 900,
handmadeshoes@msn.com, www.
benzhoushoes.com. 1) 南阳路 90-1 号
112 室 , 近西康路 2) 洛城广场 B1-48,
虹桥路 1665 号 , 近水城路 .
JustLikeMe Playtime just got much
more interesting for little girls with
the latest trends from Just Like Me.
It is a stunning and stylish range of
dresses for your little girl and her
favorite doll, Lulu. 3 Zizhong Lu, by
Danshui Lu (6311 0995) 自忠路 3 号 ,
近淡水路 .
Road 39 A trendy design for you to
make your pregnancy a beautiful
fashion road. LOFT-Rm 1220, Bldg
1, 508 Jiashan Lu (Jianguo Xi Lu),
Shanghai (6426 9567) www.road39.
com. 嘉善路 508 号 1 号楼 1220 室 ,
靠近建国西路 ).
Shanghai Tang 1)15 North Block,
Xintiandi, 181 Taicang Lu (6384 1601)
2)Shop E, Jinjiang Hotel, 59 Maoming
Nan Lu (5466 3006) 上海滩 , 1) 太仓
路 181 弄新天地北里 15 号 .2) 茂名南
路 59 号锦江饭店 E 店铺 .
StellaLam The first exclusive evening
Gown Boutique in Shanghai has
more than 500 styles presented in
the showroom and huge selection
of 10,000 styles for made-toorder dresses, 6 Lane 210 Taikang
Lu Tianzifang (6466 9710) www.
stellalam.com 上海卢湾区泰康路田
子坊 210 弄 6 号 .
Food & Beverage
City Shop B1, Shanghai Centre,
1376 Nanjing Xi Lu 2) 3211 Hongmei
Lu 3) B1, New World Dept Store
939 Huaihai Zhong Lu 4) B1,
Times Square 99 Huaihai Xi Lu
5) 1F, West Side Citigroup Tower
33 Huayuanshiqiao Lu 6) Shop
08a, Basement Novel Place 131
Tiaoyaoqiao Lu 7) B1, Shanghai
Film Art Centre 160 Xinhua Lu
8) Rm.107, Yanlord Town Centre,
Yanlord Riverside City No.30, Lane
1399 Dingxiang Lu 9) 1F-2F, Binggu
Square, 341 Tianshan Lu (400 811
1797) www.cityshop.com.cn 1) 南京
西路 1376 号上海商城地下一层 2) 虹
梅路 3211 号 3) 淮海中路 939 号巴黎
春天百货地下一层 4) 淮海西路 99
号时代广场地下一层 5) 花园石桥路
33 号 ( 富城路 ) 花旗集团大厦西侧底
层 6) 天钥桥路 131 号 ( 辛耕路 ) 永新
坊地下 08a 室 7) 新华路 160 号上海
影城地下一层 8) 丁香路 1399 弄 30
号仁恒河滨城邻里之家 107 室 9) 天
山路 341 号缤谷文化休闲广场一至二
层
City Super Shanghai Offers a onestop shopping for both groceries
and prepared foods from around
the world. www.citysuper.com. LG2,
Shanghai ifc Mall, 8 Century Avenue,
Lujiazui (5012 0998) Daily: 10.00am10.00pm 世纪大道 8 号国金中心商场
地下 2 楼
GL Japan Plaza B1, No. 1 – 6, Lane
222 Madang Lu (5382 8802) 马当路
222 弄地下一层 1-6
Les Garcons Bouchers A proper
French-style butcher shop offering
quality imported cuts of meat.
Unit 1, 356 Shuicheng Nan Lu, by
Yan’ an Xi Lu (6209 1803) Tue-Sun
8am-8pm. 长宁区水城南路 356 号
( 近虹桥路 )1 室 , 近延安西路
Kid’s Items
Baby International Started
by partents for parents, baby
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on the quality and design of their
products and are committed to
giving you professional advice. No.
20, Lane 79 Yueyang Lu (6473 2749)
www.baby-international.com 岳阳
路 79 弄 20 号 .
Bao Da Xiang Shopping for Kids 1) 685
Nanjing Dong Lu (6322 5122) 2) B1,
Building B, Wanda Plaza, 58 Guobin
Lu (6565 6203) 3) Unit B10, Outlet,
BACKPAGE 底篇
Bad Habits
By Ellen Himelfarb
M
ost people accept that
becoming a parent requires
leaving behind some of life’s
beloved luxuries: the freedom to come and
go solo without enduring charges of child
endangerment, for instance. Or unsavoury
habits like smoking, swearing and drinking
antisocial amounts of J germeister.
For the most part, I’ve found those ones
easy to dispense with; age has a way of
zapping the desire to live hard, in all sorts
of ways. What’s been more of a challenge
to me is bidding adieu to those itches you
scratch when you think nobody’s
watching. Literal itches, like the ones up
your nose and behind the pockets of your
jeans. And figurative ones, like letting rip a
full-bodied burp, or worse.
Like I said, I’ve found it challenging, and
so I haven’t left them behind. My friends
might think I’m the model of good
manners, but that’s because they’ve never
seen my collection of toenail clippings.
My bad habits far outweigh my good ones,
not that I can even remember any of the
latter. Between the picking and scratching
are bachelor-flavoured practices like eating
inappropriate food with my hands in
inappropriate places. Also: drinking out of
the carton (though, in my defence, only
when I know nobody else is interested in
the matter at hand; that goes for dipping
my spoon in the ice cream tub, too). And
sometimes – read: often – the house is just
too cold to remove clothing and wash. My
husband – if he even notices, being out of
the house 12 hours a day – must figure he’s
in too deep to escape now. It’s my
daughters, bless them, who bear the brunt
of Mommy’s improprieties.
My girls are five and three, and yet I still
behave as if they’re infants, blissfully
ignorant of my transgressions. I suppose
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that’s because the transgressions in
question can be so very fun. The younger
one experiences so much joy when she
hears me fart, it would seem miserly not to
indulge her. So I do, more than perhaps I
should. Ditto burping. The few times my
husband has heard me let one rip, he’s
expressed such horror-slash-disgust I’ve
vowed to suppress my gas until the day I
finally lose control of my faculties. The
kids, however, get the VIP performance.
Alas, their days – and mine – are
numbered. As much as it pains me to
censor myself, something tells me my
children should be learning by example. If
I keep this up much longer they’re likely to
turn into two farting, burping, hawking,
privates-scratching monkeys who eat in
bed, pee in the shower and sometimes
“forget” to brush their teeth before bed. So
I’ve started to ask myself: how many times
will I have to hear, “Ew, Mommy, get that
snot off your finger” before I finally stop
nose-picking with zeal?
As it stands, if I were to succumb to a
speeding bus tomorrow, my husband
would remember me as the lady he fell in
love with (OK, so he knows about my
aversion to bathroom doors, but I remain
largely untarnished in his eyes). I’m not
sure I’d come off half as well if my kids
were to give the eulogy.
But then, there never seems to be a good
time for this committed boor to go
straight. For now I suppose it’s enough
that I’ve recognized I have a problem; I’ve
seen the error of my ways, and that’s half
the battle. If there’s a 12-step program out
there, I’d be open to it. An intervention?
Perhaps. Just remember to keep the
windows open.