Shanghai snow
The Shanghai Garden in Winter: Wintersweet
Take a whiff - it's the season for fragrant wintersweet (la mei, 蜡梅*), and somewhere in a Shanghai lane or garden, a tree is flowering. They appear in winter's barren landscape right at that moment when it feels that all hope is lost and spring will never come, its yellow blossoms the promise of spring sunshine. Song ...
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The Shanghai Snows of Yesteryear
January 20, 2026: As a rare snow falls in Shanghai today, we thought it a good time to look back on the snows of Shanghai past. Please enjoy this reprise of our post on the Great Snow of 2008, from January 31, 2008! January 29 2008, Gao'an Road/Rue Cohen. Photo: Patrick Cranley. Shanghai’s climate is notorious for ...
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