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The Shanghai Rental Contract, Clause by Clause: What You’re Actually Signing

At some point in your Shanghai apartment hunt, a PDF lands in your WeChat: ten-plus pages, Chinese on the left, English on the right, and a landlord who would quite like it signed by Thursday. Most tenants skim it, check the rent figure, and sign. Most of the time, nothing goes wrong. But every clause in that contract exists because at some point, for someone, something did go wrong — and the...