Category: Shenzhen
SHENZHEN IN MODERN TIMES But the Shenzhen area was never really at the centre of Chinese history. Especially after the Opium Wars it was a backwater, not even a …
RESTAURANTS: SHENZHEN CHAINS This section does not include McDonalds, KFC or other well-known fast-food restaurants. Rather we aim to let you know about several franchised restaurants, offering a standard …
LANGUAGE Shenzhen is an almost purely Mandarin speaking city. It is an immigrant city whose people come from all over China and who use Mandarin as their daily language. …
Central Park is Shenzhen’s biggest park. It is right in the middle of the city between Huaqiang Rd and the Central Futian axis. It runs from almost the border …
Xiaomeisha is Dameisha’s next door little brother. It is one of the first resort areas to be developed in Shenzhen as is evidenced by the dated Tiki theme in …
GRAND THEATRE SHENZHEN This is Shenzhen’s first and oldest theatre. Like all the other institutions in the Luohu-Futian border area the dazzling new Concert Hall in the Futian central …
This magnificent building, designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki, opened to the public in 2006. It contains Shenzhen’s central library and Concert Hall/Theatre. Isozaki was commissioned to build the …
Some of the world’s great architects work in Shenzhen. See: Shenzhen Civic Centre Shi Min Zhong Xin: half a mile of glass podium covered by a great wing of …
SHENZHEN DONGMEN The Dongmen market area dates back to the Ming Dynasty in the 17th Century and is said to have been the busiest street in Shenzhen for over …
SHOPPING IN SHENZHEN Shenzhen is synonymous with shopping. Even before the 20th Century, the old Shum Chun the Cantonese name for Shenzhen was a market town and today’s Shenzhen …