My Shanghai: Liu Jian's love-hate folk rock melody

Drink Play in Shanghai
After being expelled from school and joining the army, Liu Jian decided to record his love-hate relationship with Shanghai in music and prose. Here he describes his journey off Author, singer-songwriter, and founder of folk-rock collective Shanghai ...
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The Best of CNNGo: What you may have missed this week

Explorations
What you may have missed November 23 - 27 This week on CNNGo: Hidden markets in Hong Kong, New Yorkers strike Asian poses, and a Blythe doll craze in Bangkok off --> Squse . Air pressure controls the artificial muscles so that the strawberries ...
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Shanghai wok man: The city's dying art

Eat Shop in Shanghai
Shanghai's wok man: The city's dying art Follow the sound of metal meeting metal to the shop of Cen Rong Gen, one of Shanghai's last remaining wok makers Cen Rong Gen's tools of the trade -- a trade which won't be around much longer. Cen, 57, has ...
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Chen Xingwei: Recipe for success

Eat in Shanghai
A teaspoon of luck, a cup of hard work and dash of market timing, is the recipe Chen Xingwei’s success with the Babela's Group Not just an entrepreneur with a track record for success, Chen Xingwei has a knack for fundraising, generating over US$10 ...
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Freddie Yang: Online games mogul

Shanghai
The man behind one of China’s largest interactive online gaming portals talks about local gaming and the future of the industry in China Freddie Yang: "I always thought my destiny was making Chinese online games." The Chinese online games industry is ...
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My Shanghai: Popcorn vendor Yuan Zhao Bao

Eat in Shanghai
Shanghai street food: Inside the life of a Shanghai popcorn vendor 'I don't like my job, but I have to do this work.' So says the hardworking mobile snack seller in this audio slideshow You’ll hear 40-year old Yuan Zhao Bao at work long before you ...
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