SmartShanghai is one Shanghai's longest-running outlets for quality event and venue photography, with over fifteen years of photo galleries and quality content under our belts. We don't like to brag, but our photography is... well, you judge for yourself.
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Can you write? But we mean really, really write? Do you know a lot about... art? Galleries, exhibitions, the theater, stage shows and music? How about the latest happenings in the F&B scene? Interesting urban developments? Legal stuff, like visas and working as a foreigner in China? Tech? Innovation? Entrepreneurship? Okay, here's one, we'll softball it to you: do you know a lot about... Read more...
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Expect a knock on your door soon. The 7th National Census is already underway in Shanghai. The once-a-decade headcount of people inside China includes both Chinese citizens and, as of 2010, foreign nationals. We heard from two people who have already been visited. The process is easy: the census takers knock on your door, identify themselves, and ask you to fill out a couple of... Read more...
National Holiday is over! Unless you were smart and took a couple of annual leave days to stretch it through the weekend. Not us, though! The gremlins at SmartShanghai are back at work and busy approving events listing , venue listings ,
Since the first monthly feature of adoptable foster animals at Second Chance Animal Aid in April, ten of the SCAA cats and dogs we have featured on SmartShanghai have been adopted. The animals met great matches in quiet homes or active families, and many are... Read more...
We got a report from our Buy & Sell section that yesterday a SmSh user received an email from the ‘Smart shanghai team’ saying his account might be suspended due to concerns about ‘the safety and integrity of the Smart shanghai community.’ This is fake news!! This email came after the user had decided to not sell shoes to a... Read more...
Rolling on with this week's ticketed events. Remember, we're still slinging tickets the popular Cirque du Soleil show Kooza right here ; we're still taking reservations for intense leadership workshop 'Born at Google' right here ;... Read more...
Another batch of SmartDeals that’ll be good till Sunday, October 1st. Get ‘em while they’re hot—there’s one for almost every day next week and a few open tickets too. XO Bar is opening the flood gates with free flow Italian craft Follina beer for 99rmb, Subconscious... Read more...
Hey couples! We want your origin stories, first five minutes of ‘When Harry Met Sally’ style. Well, not all you, just the ones who met through our dating service . It's for our celebration of love in all its myriad, confusing shapes. Hand us the story and we might hand you a prize. Details after the jump. Read more...
Greetings, Shanghai. Welcome back to the grind. Hope you had a good one. SmSh is back (mostly) firing on all cylinders (kinda), with dazzling lifestyle journalism, more fabulous tickets stuff than you can even believe, and events listings, events listings, events listings!
Speaking of the ticketing though, the
People are selling some awesome stuff over on our Buy & Sell section right now like pool tables , tumble dryers , drones ,... Read more...
Hey, you. The new SmartShanghai iPhone app has arrived and it's amazing. We realize that there were some problems with the old app... *ducks* ...so we've redesigned this one from the ground up . We've added in a bunch of great new features; we've fixed up and perfected the old ones. The new... Read more...
Hearing mixed reviews about the rest of Strawberry Festival, but Monday night was a huge bummer for many, as UK rave act The Prodigy got stuck on the airport runaway from Beijing to Shanghai and never played their headline slot. Festival organizers waited until around 6.30pm to make the announcement, and by 7pm, streams of disappointed fans were flowing out of
We’re looking for someone to join our core editorial staff, assuming all creative, conceptual, and administrative responsibilities relating to the food & bev content on our website. Read more...
Hey handoogies, No ratio Nelson, businessinchina, and GanMa -- where you at? We've missed you in our user reviews. Some new blood stepped up though (as did some rather conspicuous authors of planted reviews, which we didn't publish). Read on for some memorable quotes and see who won that 500rmb in Sherpa's money
Hey hey. Xin nian kuai le . We're out in the 5th tier playing mahjong, crushing jiaozi , and sipping Wuliangye . They still have fireworks out here. In other words, we are on vacation. We do have a bit of content for you this week, but we won't be listing events or venues, delivering tickets, or responding to emails... Read more...
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