Aquaria 21 – A Little Mermaid Fantasy Come to Life in Shanghai
0Shanghai holds itself distinctively apart from the rest of its Chinese peers. The exuberant, dynamic city has a young, hip and energetic attitude that saves it from the atmosphere of stodgy industrialism and one-track expansion which plagues its sister metropolises. The city is too busy looking out the windshield to glance out its rearview mirror, nor does it appear to suffer for it, as attested by its futuristic skyline and explosion of color, playgrounds and …
A simple home to a wealth of treasures-the Jade Buddha Temple
0Hui Gen, was an abbot who went to Tibet and then Burma on a pilgrimage. While there, he was gifted with 5 incredible jade Buddha statues. Two of these statues, Hui Gen brought back to Shanghai and built a temple in 1882 and placed them there. However 1911 saw an uprising, which resulted in the destruction of the temple. Thankfully the statues were kept safe and years later in 1928 another shrine was constructed on …
Yuyuan Garden – the garden of peace and comfort
0Shanghai is on the fast lane, with developments taking place every week and their middle class working seven days of the week in the hopes of making it to the big league. Think it, and it’s just about to be achieved in the metropolis that is so driven towards the future it’s almost impossible for the rest of the world to keep up. Once the playground of the elite social world, today Shanghai has morphed …
