Parts of Shanghai’s Lao Cheng, by its Mandarin name — the original port city established in the 1290s — are demolished every passing month, but large swaths of the old neighborhoods remain.

Growing up, Maria Hsin's father didn't talk about his past or his Chinese roots. After he died, she spent two years in ...

His parents met and married in the Chinese city of Harbin. He shows a picture of himself, age four, atop his father's shoulders, after the family had moved to Shanghai. "I've always loved this ...

What books can show me other facets of the city? Wei Hui’s novel “Shanghai Baby” epitomizes a late 1990s/early 2000s micro-trend in China when young urban women wrote racy novels about sex ...

Legoland Shanghai, which officially opens on July 5, will feature eight themed sections, including Ninjago, Lego Friends and ...

Wu is not the only person who treasures Laoximen: The area is beloved by historians, too. Laoximen — whose name means “Old West Gate” in Chinese — is one of the last vestiges of Shanghai’s precolonial ...

The Old City of Shanghai has become a photo-taking magnet after an artist transformed one of its streets into a feline thoroughfare festooned with cat murals. Shanghai-born artist and cartoonist ...

Shanghai city guide: Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in China’s gleaming metropolis. From old school to ultra modern, soups to skyscrapers, Chris Beanland finds that visitors will never be ...

Wang Kaiyun, 59, a cleaner in downtown Shanghai who commutes from the city's suburbs on an electric scooter, said the temperature was minus 5 C on her one-hour ride in on Thursday.