Author: life-china

There are a lot of skiing options within a few hours travel time when you live in Shanghai. Nagano. Hokkaido. Jilin. Hangzhou. Wait – Hangzhou? Yes, Hangzhou. Sort of. You are not exactly skiing on down the snowed-over slopes of the Longjing tea fields. Instead, you head westward into the mountains of Lin’an, where a ski resort has been constructed on one of the larger mountains in the province, the 1,200-meter Daming Shan, the Great Bright Mountain. Desperate for some dopamine after too long in the concrete jungle, I made the...

Deep, deep in wonderful and everlasting love, warm in the embrace of someone who can read your mind, paired with the single matching soul in this vast universe, already happy knowing that the rest of your days will be spent as part of a team of two, in happy and everlasting bliss, until your final loving moments? Great. Stay home and order eleme. Valentine’s Day is not for you. For the rest of us, who need to prove something to our partners and imperfect selves, there’s these, a whole galaxy of ways to buy credit in this game...

Thinking of a new office in one of those glass and steel wonders that dot the city skyline? Well, you’re in luck. The cost of renting a swanky spot in a Grade A office building has plateaued, and could even begin to decrease if you’re looking in the right spot. That should leave some cash in your bank for more Herman Miller chairs and desks big enough to sneak a crafty snooze under. We read through the property analysts’ reports (CBRE, Colliers, Knight Frank, JLL and Savills) to find out why, when everything always gets more...