They spoke "Shang -lan-ese." JIMMY O. YANG: We speak Shanghainese back home. Shanghainese. JIMMY O. YANG: And then I learned Cantonese from school. So I speak Cantonese in school.
Then at the end of the 1920s, he is sent to Shanghai. Shanghai is at that point the entrepot of the Asian trade. It's also basically a colonial city.
He said these were the happiest two years of his life. Shanghai was an amazing place. He came here with a group that he brought from the United States of African-American musicians called the Harlem Gentlemen, played at various ballrooms.
Not enough? I only sleep four hours from Anchorage. "Shanghai Dawn," "Shanghai Noon." Now "The Foreigner." Yeah, I pick up the script.
David Lieber: Yeah. Rahm Emanuel: One is I do actually think what I talked about transportation's -- David Lieber: Um-hum. Shanghai. David Lieber: Yeah.
around the world but nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin or the intensity of living in Shanghai in Beijing Deb realized over time that our struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and habits of its people and its cultures mysteries as her skill
horns sticking up as soon as we exited our apartment we were on the streets in Shanghai these were our neighborhoods these were our neighbors this this guy is texting by the way you can see I think there are actually it's really
knots per hour for about 10 days it was like the elephant in the room why didn't anybody tell us it was windy and Shanghai so I'll come in and across the Gobi Desert at that time and and for me the biggest part of the rocky start was as much as I had training in languages and linguistics and as much as I tried
Huxley tends to be a better guide. It's no surprise these pictures were taken by me in Shanghai. And so far while Brave New World and 1984 have some relevance in a place like Shanghai though it's more Brave New World, in the former colonies of Hong Kong and Macau, they have never, since becoming part of the PRC in 1997, been subjected fully to 1984 like suppression. And that's another thing is that to think about the degree of regional variation and of course that's something I don't need to say here, because with the internet
More skyscrapers. It has the fastest train on earth, and its landscape is being used. Shanghai, it's not just that people go there like Merchant Ivory did to film a period epic. Michael Winterbottom went there to film "Code 46", a cloning story set in the future, in which he wanted to build special sets. He thought it would cost too much money. He also
as well as other groups that are living locally. And we should have some say in how exactly these things are playing out. We want a more responsive government. So the protests in Shanghai, the protests were radically different, they were very different stories, but there was a connecting thread I think, in this kind of concern with the impact on lives of a form of development that didn't have input from the people being most affected. And so these are shots of the anti-maglev protests, most of the photographs I took. These were pulled
that will move things quickly is likely. I think it's, I think it's likely to remain a thorny issue, and there're a bunch of thorny issues between China and the U.S. So I think Shanghai isn't seen that always as representing the country. There's a lot of Anti-Shanghainese sentiment which I'm quite comfortable with having grown up in L.A. and knowing how the
that will move things quickly is likely. I think it's, I think it's likely to remain a thorny issue, and there're a bunch of thorny issues between China and the U.S. So I think Shanghai to another part of China. But now if I'm going to Shanghai and I tell people I'm going to Hong Kong in a day or two, they just shrug like you know, so what? We can,
book about the yansi river and I spent about a year traveling all the way from Shanghai where it debouches into the sea up to a place called galland dandong in Tibet where it rises and I'm sure most of you are familiar with the river it's second or third longest in the world nearly 4,000 miles but the part that
I'm very excited to kick off this talk events at Google. In Shanghai, in this Google Talks, we are very excited to invite world famous influential talkers and thinkers. They come here. They talk about their life's appearances, their ways how to influence the world, and how can influence the other peoples to know about China,
and Berlin, and Shanghai. And Shanghai was only behind New York in terms of population, six million people in Shanghai. Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, George Bernard Shaw, and Eugene O'Neill; any number of writers and intellectuals from all over the world.
in the country. And there's regional coordination about this. The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, I think that's what it's called, is an organization primarily with China and Russia. But India and Pakistan just joined.
So there's no question when people naively come and say, oh, I would not put the data up in the cloud. In Shanghai when I heard that argument, what? You are using Google Docs here from China?
But in direct response to your question, unfortunately, we have not reached Nirvana. Or, we have not reached Shangri-La. Race still matters. We wish it didn't matter. In response to an earlier question, I said about the concept of being colorblind.
the rankings focus on the wrong things, they create perverse incentives, critics will say. The Shanghai rankings have a measure of how many Nobel winners you have on your faculty. And you know, one question is, well Ok, they grabbed their Nobel 30 years ago, what does that have to do with their current research, do they actually teach students? There are
my cell phone and laughing it felt like a slumber party than you know hanging out all night staying up and when we got into Shanghai I asked them last meal before we go into the British Consulate what do you want to eat they said whatever you want teacher Kim uh in the Korean culture teacher is a respectful way to address somebody and I said have
Beijing and I get to know um that family quite well and then I end up going down to Shanghai and interning in um a very high-end restaurant called the wanoa club run by a um a celebrity chef named Jeremy L and um and I see sort of the
JIMMY O. YANG: That's true. They spoke "Shang -lan-ese." JIMMY O. YANG: We speak Shanghainese back home. Shanghainese. JIMMY O. YANG: And then I learned Cantonese from school.
and it squirts soup all over you and it's just absolutely delicious anyways they those were obvious originally from an area in Shang near Shanghai and um and then the Taiwanese um ended up taking that recipe over and doing it really well in Taipei and opened a restaurant called Ding taong
tailored in Shanghai from the family that actually invented the Zhongshan Zhongshan suit. Like it's a, it has uh,
They're often shanghaied or conned into taking jobs, and then sometimes they don't get paid for years and cannot leave the boats.
champion of Shanghai CEC（China Endurance Championship）.
And jazz was not yet a very lucrative profession in the United States, so a lot of American musicians said, I hear Shanghai has a burgeoning jazz world. Why don't we go there and try to make a living here?
Soong Meiling was a huge fan of jazz, probably that you don't learn about that in the history books. But she was a Shanghai young woman who loved the nightlife. She was a socialite.
She's a child growing up in wartime China. She ends up in Shanghai, is abandoned again, and makes her way through a city-- a huge city that was under wartime occupation by a terrible memory and a terrible enemy, and somehow makes her way to come to the United States
Jing is from Shanghai.
This is Shanghai. The population of Shanghai is 25 million people.
Did they spoke Shanghaiese?
You see here Shanghai, an image taken in 1975, in 1990, in 2000, and in 2010.
When I was in Shanghai there was this person that wanted to meet me because he had read my books.
I flew from Shanghai back to Singapore.
It is not as trivial as it sounds because it clearly isn't just access to the bits and bytes. So I was in Shanghai-- actually, when these people from "People's Daily" was at my place interviewing me-- and I showed them location history on Google. So I showed them you go into History and Location.
fly to Shanghai if you can Skype with people there?
People still fly to Shanghai.
layers but shanga is is um you know it's it's home for us uh it's very e very
This is Shanghai in China-- similar trends going on as we saw in Japan, but delayed a bit.
south of Shanghai, which is opposite to the Taiwanese Channel.
We're in Shanghai, a French chef, serving kind of an English dish, fish and chips, or thereabouts.
This is Shanghai. And this area here is where Shanghai Proper was in 1984.
It's this little Shangri La.
store you want at the top mandan but you notice that no one's there there's a kind of sweetheart deal going on at least in Shanghai where the the fancy brands Armani and so forth can have bragging rights you know New York Tokyo London Paris Shanghai and Shanghai has the bragging rights that they have these shops it doesn't really matter to our
least in Shanghai where the the fancy brands Armani and so forth can have bragging rights you know New York Tokyo London Paris Shanghai and Shanghai has the bragging rights that they have these shops it doesn't really matter to our money that nobody is actually in those shops shopping because they they only pay rent as a proportion of their sales
in the beautiful southwest typical traditional wedding on the flip side if you're in Shanghai and you're a 50-something year-old parent with an unmarried twenty something year old child you'll go to rending want on people's park and try to do a little matchmaking for your kids I'm going to
English as is different woo is to Mandarin as German asst to English so of course I didn't understand that the accent in Shanghai is if Hmong thou show my teacher were from Beijing it would be like he was from Boston suddenly I was in Shanghai as though I landed in Mobile
cost crossed a dozen lanes of traffic under the busy overpass of Chengdu road and continued up nanjing road past the buildings of the shanghai TV station every day just after one o'clock i retraced my steps home day after day week after week my route took me past the same group of young guys who were selling knock-off goods on the sidewalk