“Ga san hu” is now what you may hear every day if you are a loyal listener of the 2012 radio program A La Ting Xin Wen (Let’s listen to news). Many people were curious about the meaning of ga san hu.

While Shanghai strives to be an international city, locals are worried about the preservation of its cultural identity. After the 1990s, when Shanghai increased its efforts to become an international ...

Tobias Le Compte, a 35-year-old Belgian musician widely known as Tobias or Gao Yue, has become a sensation on social media for his excellent grasp of the main Shanghai dialect. A multi-instrumentalist ...

The Modern Baby Kindergarten in Shanghai's Pudong New District gives classes in Mandarin, but uses the Shanghai dialect in other activities and class conversations, said Zhu Jianmin, director of the ...

A long-awaited television series, which was released in both Mandarin and the Shanghai dialect in late December, has sparked discussions among residents, online viewers and experts over the ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - A small group of scholars, students and local residents of Shanghai are standing up to save their dialect, which traces its roots to one of China's oldest spoken languages, from ...

Japanese cartoon characters are now playing their part in preserving the Shanghai dialect and making the language more popular than ever among the young and hip of Shanghai. For more than four years ...

A Shanghai high school student's story of being ordered to write an 800-word letter of apology for speaking her local dialect in class has sparked a public outcry about the fast-disappearing dialect.

A Chinese New Year flash event was held at the International Services Shanghai, the one-stop service center for foreigners at Terminal 2 of Shanghai Pudong International Airport on February 5, 2026.