CNNGo: You’re lauded as one of the most active Japanese creators outside Japan. What brought you to Shanghai?
Kenta Torimoto:
I was born in a small town in Hokkaido, the northern part of Japan in 1980. I grew up in Japan’s post-bubble period when...
Author, singer-songwriter, and founder of folk-rock collective Shanghai East District Power, 31 year old Liu Jian was born in Henan, but has made Shanghai his home since 2001. At age 16, after being expelled from school, he joined the People's Liberation...
Baoyuan Lu is like many small streets in Zhabei District, littered with umbrella-shaded fruit stands, laundry dangling from windows and open store fronts selling knickknacks. But unlike other streets, here there is a steady hammering that gets louder and...
Ask Chen Xingwei, founder of Babela's Kitchen "What’s cooking?" and you won’t hear a recipe, you’ll hear about the delicious Italian food that his 60 plus restaurants in Shanghai and Beijing are dishing out to the eagerly awaiting masses. Maybe a better...
The Chinese online games industry is making headlines around the world. As co-founder of 9you.com, one of largest Chinese online games portals, 33-year old Freddie Yang is one the men most responsibile for the incredible surge in interest.
In a...
You’ll hear 40-year old Yuan Zhao Bao at work long before you see him.
If you hear what sounds like an isolated gunshot on the streets of Shanghai, chances are it’s the exploding sound of his smoky old-style popcorn popper, providing a bit of nostalgia...
