China, the bystander effect, a motorcycle and my foot: A quick rundown

March 25th, 2012  |  by  |  published in News & Opinion, zS Blogs

China, the bystander effect, a motorcycle and my foot: A quick rundown

Sarah Brady analyzes traffic-related injuries and the "bystander effect," sharing a hit-and-run "bu hao yisi" story of her own.

Shanghai Taxicab Tales: "Welcome to Take My Taxi"

December 28th, 2011  |  by  |  published in Creative takes, Features

Shanghai Taxicab Tales: "Welcome to Take My Taxi"

Jessie Hsia explores the world of Shanghai cabbies one conversation, one kilometer, one RMB and one unexpected experience at a time. You'll never see shifu quite the same way again…

Biking to be green in Red China? Not so fast…

November 29th, 2011  |  by  |  published in News & Opinion, zS Blogs

Biking to be green in Red China? Not so fast...

Are Shanghai cyclists thinking green? When it comes to stop lights, absolutely. The environment? Not so much, as Delrisha White explains

Traffic and Hand-Holding

May 12th, 2009  |  by  |  published in zS Blogs

by Graham Bannon It's not a particularly strange occurrence — not something I have never experienced — it's just unexpected. It's something you would think belongs more to the small town (although, in China, that is something of an oxymoron; I met a German fellow a while back who liked to recount the story of his amazement at how a Chinese […]

Run-ins on the Road Home

November 19th, 2008  |  by  |  published in Creative takes

by Amy Goldman Paris still lives in me. Its languorous cafés, skeptic berets. Its sizzling steak-frîtes and saucy demoiselles. That blue smoke of stubby Gitanes, curlicuing up from puckering mouths. The songs of Jacques Brel and Edith Piaf. Everywhere the sublime! So delicious.  And slightly bitter. There’s nothing in the world like being young and […]

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