{"id":504,"date":"2004-07-23T11:43:04","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T03:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=504"},"modified":"2004-07-23T11:43:04","modified_gmt":"2004-07-23T03:43:04","slug":"read_magazine_shanghai_after_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/magazines\/read_magazine_shanghai_after_o.php","title":{"rendered":"Read magazine: Shanghai after one  martini too many"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/images\/bookcity0720.html\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/images\/bookcity0720.html','popup','width=420,height=567,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bookcity0720s.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/images\/bookcity0720s.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"230\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Read magazine (<em>shucheng<\/em>)<\/strong> is trying very hard to be the New Yorker of China.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a shame they couldn&#8217;t come up with a completely original format, but the magazine deserves credit nonetheless for its mix of articles about society and culture, cartoons and whimsical cover illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>The pictured cover is from <em>Read<\/em>&#8216;s July edition (click to enlarge) and shows you what the Shanghai skyline looks like after a few rounds of martinis.<\/p>\n<p>You can see some other <em>Read<\/em> covers on Danwei <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?search=shucheng\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read magazine (shucheng) is trying very hard to be the New Yorker of China. It&#8217;s a shame they couldn&#8217;t come up with a completely original format, but the magazine deserves credit nonetheless for its mix of articles about society and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/magazines\/read_magazine_shanghai_after_o.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}