Who to follow in Shanghai

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Walking footage of the Former French Concession — useful for judging how dense and how walkable that corridor actually is.

Street life, not a school-run argument.

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A teacher's posting, including bringing a dog into China — the pet questions get concrete here.

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Long-form reporting on people in China, occasionally on families like yours.

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A long-running documentary series about an expatriate family in Shanghai, running since 2015.

Search this name on YouTube.

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National chamber site; Shanghai chapter events live there. YouTube channel ID is public; we still send you to the official home first.

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Official British chamber.

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English events desk. Their site prints Thats_Shanghai for the apps. Not a housing list.

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English venue calendar. A listing is a clue — we still walk the door.

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A team of foreigners filming Shanghai streets. Search the name in the app. Bund qipao is not a lease.

Search this name on Douyin 抖音.

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Long-term daily life in Jing'an, from a Japanese resident.

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Street interviews — a quick read on how much Japanese and English you actually hear in a given area.

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Walkthroughs of empty apartments around Gubei, Hongqiao and the Pudong Japanese School radius. Useful for seeing what an unfurnished Shanghai flat actually looks like.

An independent agency, unrelated to us. Useful for seeing the stock, not a recommendation.

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Official business-landing material for Japanese companies.

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Japanese weekly since 2004. Their own guide names WeChat 上海japion. Treat ads as a calendar, not our listing.

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Landing notices and rules. They do not publish compounds.

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A Chinese-Korean creator who grew up around Hongquan Road — the Korean street from the inside.

Search this name on Douyin 抖音.

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Official consulate. Rules, not Hongquan shop names.

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The formal network for French-speaking families and companies here.

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Official Alliance. Classes and culture — not the Qingpu school gate.

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Official French consulate. Rules, not a Concession romance.

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German chamber; the site carries Shanghai events.

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Official culture desk. German school families still commute to Qingpu.

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Chinese lifestyle documentary with a high visual standard — lane houses, interiors, and how families here actually talk. If you only watch English food vlogs, you will underestimate what an unfurnished Shanghai flat and a Chinese-speaking front desk are like.

It films the character of the city, not school-bus radius. The lanes you see there are not an argument for a specific address.

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A national programme on foreigners living in China, including cross-cultural families. Shanghai is one city among many in it.

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An Italian who married into a Shanghai family — wet markets and dialect, the everyday city.

Search this name on Douyin 抖音.

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City news and documentary in English. The cable channel ICS closed at the start of 2025; this is where that coverage went.

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Shanghai Daily's English digital edition — municipal news and what is on.

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American chamber; policy briefings and a professional network.

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Municipal English paper’s video home — city news, not a lease.