Welcome to the first in a series of Mompreneur profiles! This week, Siobhan E Brown met Amiek Krakers, founder of the House of Opulence. If you’d like to suggest a future mompreneur for us to feature, please let us know at shmamas@gmail.com Amiek, how did you come to live in Shanghai? Let’s go back to … Continued
By Melanie Ham We all know what a headache it has become to hail a cab lately in Shanghai. How many times have you seen the green light on the top, but a red light on the meter and a driver shaking his head while scowling at you as you try to flag him? I’ve … Continued
The weather is scorching hot. Dripping with sweat, students train vigorously from morning until night every day of the week. The youngest student is only 4 years old and the eldest is just over 40. This acrobatic school is located in YingShang county close to the city of Fuyang in the province of Anhui and … Continued
Every month, we feature news from Chinese news that may not caught the eye of the western media. Find out what happens in China outside of what is published on China Daily. Johann, from Easy Mandarin Chinese School (www.easymandarin.cn), will be finding, translating and helping us learn some related words to teach us a little more … Continued
Every week, we feature a news article from Chinese news that may not caught the eye of the western media. Find out what happens in China outside of what is published on China Daily. Johann, from Easy Mandarin Chinese School (www.easymandarin.cn), will be finding, translating and helping us learn some related words to teach us a … Continued
Happy summer everyone! At this point in the website rebuild process, we hope you are enjoying the new look, feel and functionalities of the website. We’re still working on several areas, and with this in mind I am writing you this little update. Melanie and I are off on our summer holidays, but … Continued
ShanghaiMamas was founded in April 2006 by Lynda Quintana, an American mother who had recently arrived in Shanghai from Texas. She quickly found that she was missing a social support system connecting her to other international families, and created ShanghaiMamas as a Yahoo Group where parents could meet online and ask questions, provide emotional support, organize playgroups, swap/sell baby products, … Continued
ShanghaiMamas is run by a committee of eight dedicated volunteer mamas. We began meeting weekly in mid-March 2010 as the community site was in the early stages of development. Over the next three months we drank a lot of coffee, traded hundreds of emails, shared many laughs, deliberated, discussed, and pondered almost every aspect of … Continued
