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...Shanghai Center was also used this month by HBS’s China Immersion Experience Program...
...addition to the IXPs, Professor Robert S. Kaplan taught an Executive Education program this January at the Harvard Business School’s new Shanghai Center...
...never-ending debate between residents of Shanghai and Beijing about which city is superior, one Beijing trump card has always been proximity to the countryside. In Shanghai, Beijingers point out smugly, you can drive for three hours and still be trapped in urban sprawl. In the capital, not much more than an hour on the road gets you out into the stark, sparsely populated beauty of the Western Hills, with the Great Wall thrown in as a bonus. Sadly for Beijing partisans, they will be less able to rely on that argument in future, because from now on Shanghaiers will...
Nestled among bamboo forests in rolling hills a 2 ½-hour drive from Shanghai, Moganshan is a once glamorous hill-station retreat that is just beginning to reawaken. In the early decades of the 20th century, foreign residents of Shanghai - later followed by rich Chinese families - flocked to these hills for relief during the humid summers. They built sprawling houses complete with swimming pools, tennis courts and dance floors. After the communist takeover, Moganshan retreated into obscurity, with many of the mansions crumbling into ruin. But in the past decade, visitors have been drawn back to it by its serene...
...concept for the two-year-old retreat came to South African and Shanghai expat Grant Horsfield who, while on vacation in Vietnam, realized the need for a rustic escape from life and work in China's financial capital. Horsfield teamed up with Briton Gabriela Lo, who shortly after stumbled upon a decaying Moganshan village (the youngest resident was 61 years old). "Once I found the village," Lo says, "I thought, This is it." After initial skepticism from the locals, Naked leased six of the village's 18 houses and now employs nine of its 14 residents...