Shanghai Stories

After six months in China, I realized that I havn't introduce you to this amazing city I live in : Shanghai ! Shanghai is divided in two parts : Puxi (Pu means Shanghai, and Xi means west in Chinese) and Pudong (Dong means east). Those two parts are separated...

Beijing litteraly means "The Northern Capital City". The first character, 北 (bei), means "north", and the second one, 京 (jing), means "city". Since 1421, under the Ming Dynasty and the emperor Yongle, Beijing is the capital of China. Its surface is around...

Let's take a look back on what happened in March, in Japan. As everybody knows, a huge earthquake happened on the 11th of march (9 degrees on Richter's Scale, one of the biggest in the world), in the nothern part of the country. Thousands of people died,...

Pudong - from The Bund, Shanghai Playing Mahjong, Old City, Shanghai Jinmao & Oriental Pearl TV Towers & The Bund, from the Shanghai World Financial Center, Shanghai Oriental Pearl TV Tower - Summer Time, Shanghai The Chinese Flag, Shanghai Chinese Taxi,...

This semester in Asia helped me to discover what is another culture: the Asian culture. Everything is different, in the day-to-day life and of course in the business life. In the day-to-day life, all the codes are different, especially regarding the meals,...

My second stop was Xi’an, in the Shaanxi Province Xi’an , is a very ancient city of China. It has served as a capital city for 11 dynasties over a period of 1,100 years, longer than any other ancient capital city in China. Xian has 3,100 years of history...

After more than 4 months in Shanghai, it is time to begin discovering a little bit more of the Chinese culture, history, architecture and people … I made a first stop at Suzhou, located 40 minutes from Shanghai with Express Train; this is a city with...

Sebastian Vettel - Red Bull Racing On the 17th of April, we went to the Chinese Formula 1 Grand Prix. The Shanghai Grand Prix is the third step of the world championship. Until this race, Sebastian Vettel was the uncontested leader of this championship,...

During my academic exchange, my university in China is called the Shanghai Institute of Foreign Trade. This is a public Chinese University, founded in 1960 which is under the administration of the Shanghai Municipal Government. The university mainly teaches...

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