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Welcoming the God of Fortune at City God Temple this morning - he has a lot of fans! #CNY2025

Happy new year from the dancing dragons and stepping lions at the Peninsula! #CNY2025

@ChefMiew Yum yum yum! Seems like there’s always a line there for the snacks!

Bunnicula berries - did some evil being suck the color out?

Scenes from the morning run: Vuitton-Murakami flower power (not the writer apparently); winter hat guy; bear on a bike; advice on Wulumuqi (which passersby don’t really need). #shanghai

Shanghai’s bodega cat: the Avocado Lady kitty! #catsofshanghai

@moiiay Look forward to welcoming you back!

@christinedelhi Of course! And a very happy new year to you and yours!

New Year’s Eve visit with our favorite Shanghai nonagenarians: George Wang, 97, and Betty Barr, 91, both born in #Shanghai.

Scenes from the New Year’s Eve run: lantern season, tree sweaters, extraordinarily ugly new coffee shop entrance on Wulumuqi; the moment of collapses. #shanghai

Current crop of snakes for the upcoming Lunar New Year is not inspiring. Vacuous baby dolls with tails, angry fish swallowing a snake, and a wide-eyed Disneyfied snake that quite possibly used to be a dragon until the factory switched to making snakes. This is the best we can do?

@moiiay Oh, wonderful! Welcome back!

Scenes from the morning run: Julu Lu winter wonderland, dumpling-clad doggies, winter shadows, and a tree kitty. #shanghai

Mirror selfie in an #ArtDeco mirror at the Resonances Art Deco exhibition.

@WendyDS5 Just missing you to make it complete!

Lisa See on her editing process, a reminder of how much of writing is editing!

Just no. This is a non-color.