Happy Chinese New Year, everybody. From the staff here at SmartShanghai, we wish you all the best whether you're spending the holiday with...
Things to eat, drink, do, see in Shanghai over the holidays, plus some pithy recommendations of shows to watch. TV: never ever a bad idea.
For anyone staying in Shanghai over the New Year break, The PuLi Hotel is offering a sweet deal on its rooms. From tonight until Jan. 30, you...
The Shanghai fireworks task force tests out this year's fireworks offerings. Smell the smoke from all around -- burn, Shanghai, burn.
It's Chinese New Year, which means evil spirits are on their way to curse you with a year's bad luck. Scare them away with a new pair of red pants.

Whoa!!!!!!: Crazy, amazing, awful, but in the end... life affirming -- expat Nicolas Balcazar recounts his apartment fire.
A big xin nian kuai le to all you folks out there in radioland. SmartShanghai will be taking a moderately-deserved vacation for Chinese New...
"They have, definitely have... but danger. You had better not buy," warned the young fireworks dealer in a heavy Kuala Lumpur accent....
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