Your SEA Executive Board

By Jaap Grolleman I've spent three years in Shanghai, 300 hours of which I spent in a classroom learning Mandarin. Aside from learning...

by Margrit Amelunxen Dragon Boat Festival or 端午节 duānwǔ jié is a traditional holiday in China, part of the UNESCO World Intangible...

by Julia Maier-Fuersattel “Where people sing you can safely gather,” goes a well-known German song that comes into my mind while I am on...

by Holly Royce Cole Now that all SEA communications have been moved online, we have bid goodbye to the monthly magazine Shanghai Courier....

By Julie Stegink Did you move to Shanghai with pets? Or did you adopt a dog and/or cat while living here? How do you prepare to move home...

This is part two in a series of articles about how our members, both in Shanghai and abroad, are coping with life in Shanghai during...

This is part one in a series of articles about how our members, both in Shanghai and abroad, are coping with life in Shanghai during...

By Karen Collias If you want to spend an interesting afternoon with family and friends, visit the Duoyun Bookstore, "Books above the...

By Christina Martirosian And just like that she spread her wings like a butterfly and took off. My baby has gone off to college. The...

By Pamela Murray Many of us came to the small group Mahjong at the invitation of a fellow SEA member. For me, it was my friend and...

By Karen Collias The Shanghai Museum of Modern Art is only one of two museums worldwide to exhibit iconic musician Bob Dylan’s collection...

By Juliette Gustavsson It may be a small world after all, but Shanghai Disneyland is huge; with a 5-mile long oval perimeter, and an...

Planning a trip to Shanghai Disney? Here’s Mrs. Jet-Set’s best tips and tricks

By Rebekah Kebede When Josh Cerreta moved to Shanghai three years ago, one of the things he missed the most about home was beer. And he...

By Liz Anderson If there was a recipe for a successful trailing spouse in Shanghai, I think it might read something like this: Start with...

By Danielle LeClerc When I arrived in Shanghai after a year of solo travel in southeast Asia, I was craving interaction. On the road, my...

By Lori Ozdowy With organizations that depend on volunteer participation-like the Shanghai Expat Association, Brits Abroad Shanghai (BA),...

By Kathy Van Wilgenburg First, a quick primer Alibaba is China’s—and, by many measures, the world’s—biggest online commerce company. It...

By Liz Anderson You expect to deal with unforeseen scenarios of all sorts when you sign up to be an expatriate. But how can you...

By Danielle LeClerc In 2008, practicing my “yi, er, san” as the train rolled into Shanghai Railway Station, I was more than a little...