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The Bund promenade
A riverbank walk with room for looking. Historic facades on one side, the Pudong skyline across the water.
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A good reason to go out
A garden, a park, a river walk and places to look a little closer.
A garden, a park, a river walk and places to look a little closer. Choose a starting point from our growing Shanghai selection, then follow its official sources to plan your visit.
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Shanghai Museum East
A museum day in Pudong, shaped around Chinese art. Choose a gallery and leave yourself time to look properly.
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West Bund Museum
Art first, river air afterwards. An exhibition-led stop on the Xuhui waterfront, with a programme connected to the Centre Pompidou.
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Rockbund Art Museum
Contemporary art near the Bund, with free exhibition admission. Check what is on before building a day around it.
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Fuxing Park
A green pause near Huaihai Road. Come without a checklist and let a park bench become part of the plan.
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Yu Garden
Ponds, rockwork and framed views in the old city. Give the garden its own visit, separate from the shopping streets outside.
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Ai Apaec: a paper-art workshop
A bookable museum workshop for ages 9–18, with two Sunday sessions exploring a heroic journey through paper art.
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Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall
Get your bearings at People’s Square before walking into the city itself. Urban planning becomes a useful lens for a Shanghai afternoon.
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Shanghai Library East
A Pudong afternoon with room to read. Shanghai Library East is as much a place to slow down as a building to look at.
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Jing’an Sculpture Park
Contemporary sculpture meets a real neighbourhood park. Come for a short walk between central Shanghai’s indoor stops.
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Shanghai Ballet: The Heartbeat of Muqam
A young musician’s return home provides the story for a ballet shaped by Uyghur Muqam traditions.
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Robert Wilson: Dorian
Dorian Gray, Francis Bacon and Oscar Wilde meet in a music-theatre work shaped by Robert Wilson’s visual language.
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Game of History
The contest between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang becomes a chessboard in this Jiangsu dance drama.
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Cassiel Gaube: Soirée d’Études
House dance footwork becomes a series of choreographic studies for three dancers.
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Pillars
Ancient Chinese buildings and the people who protected them inspire a dance drama about architectural memory.
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Lucinda Childs: DANCE
Lyon Opera Ballet performs Lucinda Childs’ DANCE, where repeated movement meets Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt.
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Rosas: Exit Above, After the Tempest
Walking becomes a starting point for thirteen performers moving through blues, pop and choreography.
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Rachid Ouramdane: OUTSIDER
Twenty dancers and four extreme-sports performers test trust, risk and collective movement in OUTSIDER.
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Mount Hua: A Legend of Love and Deliverance
Shanghai Yue Opera revisits the Lotus Lantern legend in a new production about family and freedom.
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The Bolshoi Ballet: Don Quixote
The Bolshoi brings its full Don Quixote production to Shanghai Culture Square for three evenings.
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Prime Minister Liu the Hunchback: Night Trial
Beijing Jingju revives the Night Trial chapter of its comic historical opera about Liu Yong.
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Rosas danst Rosas
Four dancers turn repeated everyday gestures into the charged movement language of De Keersmaeker’s 1983 work.
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Dream in Peony Pavilion
Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei’s love story moves into contemporary dance, between dreams, gardens and painted space.
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Wu Jingzi: Lu Opera
Anhui’s Lu opera tradition tells the life of Wu Jingzi, author of The Scholars.