Shanghai expat guide

Shanghai's nightlife is a living organism. It breathes, it shifts, and it evolves faster than almost any other city I know. A bar that's packed on a Saturday night can be a ghost town on a Tuesday. A club that opens to massive hype can quietly close its doors six months later, replaced by something new and entirely different. That's part of what makes this city so exciting — and so frustrating. By...

You've landed in Shanghai, picked up your keys, and collapsed onto your new sofa. Congratulations — but before you unpack a single box, there's one piece of paperwork the law expects from you within 24 hours: temporary residence registration (临时住宿登记, línshí zhùsù dēngjì). It sounds more intimidating than it is. The good news: in Shanghai, you can now do the whole thing online in...