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Shanghai 2001

That wag Tim Footman has managed to prick my conscience into getting me to write a second blog post in a month – my pathetic rejoinder to all the ‘blogs are dead’ noise on Twitter.

As my life at the moment consists almost entirely of exam revision, lesson writing and cat grooming, I have to plunder [...]

Fleeting images from Shanghai

Pudong skyline: fifteen years ago this was all agricultural land.

The view from my hotel. At night I’d occasionally see a light on in the tower crane driver’s box to the right of the picture. Did he sleep up there?

Shanghainese shoes on the 93rd floor: spot the Chanel.

Down at street level things can be a little [...]

Social life in Shanghai

When I used to live here, the varied and unpredictable social life was one of the main appeals of this crazy city. Aside from the fact that everything is cheaper so it’s easier to go out five or six nights a week, new places open (and close) at such a phenomenal rate that there is [...]