'Shanghai Flavor'

While enjoying a distinct architectural fusion of East and West, Shanghai is also indisputably well-known for its natives' 'Shanghai Flavor'.

Other cities in China may categorize inhabitants according to occupation, income or status, but in Shanghai there are only two categories: from Shanghai and not from Shanghai.

People like to say that it's easy to tell if someone is from Shanghai. Even barring the Shanghai dialect and fashion, people from Shanghai are said to exude a Shanghai 'flavor'.

Shanghai 'flavor' can be contagious. People from Shanghai are known for influencing the environment around them and injecting bits of Shanghai into everything they can. A person who marries a native of Shanghai can expect to be transformed into a 'native' of Shanghai. A group of people from Shanghai can form a mini Shanghai wherever they are living. Even during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), natives of Shanghai, sent to remote villages for 're-education', transformed the areas around them into 'Little Shanghais'.

 Jazz in Shanghai

Paramount Hall

It's no surprise that the 'Paris of the East' is also known for its jazz. Shanghai has been China's jazz capital for over 70 years. Jazz has soaked into the life and blood of the city, and the rhythms and riffs of the music mirror the culture that coddles them. The jazz clubs are located in Paramount Hall, the Peace Hotel, the Shanghai Bund, Xin Tian Di, or along Huaihai Road or Hengshan Road. In other words, anywhere in the city you can join other jazz lovers in taking in a live show at clubs that usually have a history of their own.

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