Shanghai TALK Magazine

We speak with Peter Hessler about his latest book, Country Driving: A Journey Through China from Farm to Factory.

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Louis de Bernières is the author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, and Junot Díaz wroteThe Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. What do the authors have in common?

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Sense & Insensibility

JUE Festival's name means 'sense' or 'feel' in Chinese, we took it's name a little too literally by asking this year's JUE performers about their feelings.

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LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad

This weekend music lovers are in for a real treat when DnB royalty comes to town in the form of LTJ Bukem. TALK caught up with the mercurial DJ and found a little about what he...

Shanghai in Numbers

30 – The number of years since Shanghai’s economy was larger than Hong Kong’s. Not anymore, though: according to figures from...

Talkin' with The Thermals

Hailing from Portland, Oregon, The Thermals are an indie post-pop-punk band comprised of Hutch Harris (guitar/vocals), Kathy...

Brasa Getting Bigger

Eduardo Vargas is no chicken when it comes to the restaurant business. The Shanghai restaurateur is expanding...

Deals: Dine for Haiti

Saturday night is dance for Haiti at Zhijiang Dream Factory, featuring Duck Fight Goose, Monroe Stahr, Weghur and the Lions of Puxi. The door charge is RMB 100, with...

Expo Talk: Dashan

In this series, we interview people driving the Expo forward into world fair fame.

Dashan, also known as Mark Rowswell, is often called “the most famous foreigner...

Restaurant Wars: Unpublished Pics!

On Friday night we wound up talking with Balthazar's David Alexander Begg about some of the Cuisine Alliances pictures that didn't make it into...

China's Winter Olympic Breakthrough

The 2010 Vancouver Olympics have come to a close. The medal count is in. And now, China is calling its 8th place medal ranking a "breakthrough."

Team China won...

Pictures: GTA V - Shanghai Restaurant Wars (UPDATE)

A gang of ten restaurants has banded together to publish a coupon book called "Springlicious". There are lots of deals in there, but we're more interested in the mad awesome...

Digital Love at Not Me

Have any plans for Thursday night? No, well consider your evening sorted when TALK lets you into a little secret. Not Me is having a relaunch party to celebrate their recent...