Shanghai is also called the Paris of the East . A private tour is provided in Shanghai, around Shanghai, including tour guide, translation, hotel booking, car rental, business consultation and customized travel services. We can be both the guide and interpreter for anyone who wants to know Shanghai and its cross-culture, its history or China better; also  for anyone who wants to learn the survive Chinese mandarin while in the sightseeing tour. In one word, we offer customized cultural and historic English-language tours, Chinese mandarin classes and lectures services.    

The sightseeing tours are designed and customized mainly focused on the historic, cultural evolution exclusively and innovatively. The corporate activities and parties are all to support the theme of cultural adventure and Chinese mandarin learning. We will introduce you the Shanghai, Chinese culture by their historic evolution, historic and cultural events, art, cuisine, tradition; teach you survive Chinese language to make you a unforgettable traveling in Shanghai or in China. 

We can provide one to one efficient Chinese courses or in small classes with 5 average numbers of students in each class. Our teachers are from well-known Chinese university, highly skilled and educated in teaching Chinese to foreigners.  

1. Cultural Sightseeing Program

Located on the estuary of the Yangtze River and Huangpu River, Shanghai turns to be the largest city in China and the eighth largest one of the world. Being the industrial hub of China, Shanghai is also the largest financial and commercial center of the nation.
Shanghai has been China's foremost international city since its origins in the mid 19th century. Known as the "Paris of the Orient", by the 1920s it was the third largest financial centre in the world. It was also the birthplace of "Communist Party of China", the "China modern"--the first motor car, the first feature film and the first Qipao (Cheongsam, one of the most typical and traditional costumes for Chinese women), various international architectures ( oriental styles and western styles), various style of foods, all appeared in Shanghai.   

Shanghai is one of the highly popular tourist destinations of the world because of its seamless melding of western and eastern cultures features, its typical colonized history, its birth place of Communist Party of China, the only one refugee camp for Jews during World War Two in Asia, its water towns, the birth place of modern literature and art of China, its living style of cross-culture and so on. Here, there are many traditional Chinese style houses and buildings together with the western style of houses and buildings alone the streets. 

Featured Tours in Shanghai or Around Shanghai 

Based on Shanghai's typical history and culture, we designed the unique tour lines for you. Each tour line based on one day, you can choose one or more tour lines or you can customize whatever you like according to existed lines or you can also create the lines you prefer to. 

The following are the featured sightseeing tour lines we propose to you.

1.  Tour of Arts and Folk Arts
2.  Tour of Typical Old Shanghai
3.  Tour of Former Residences of Famous Historic Figures
4.  Tour of Various Museums
5.  Tour of Various Buddha Temples, Churches, Cathedrals
6.  Tour of Typical Old Gardens
7.  Tour of Foundation of Communist Party of China
8. Tour of Historic Places
9.  Tour of Pub Street
10.  Tour of Various Parks
11.  Tour of Water Towns in Shanghai or Around Shanghai
12.  Tour of Suzhou
13.  Tour of Hangzhou
14. Tour of Nanjing

2. Chinese Mandarin Course Program

Besides our cultural tour guide service, we also provide Chinese Mandain course program for these (expats, foreign visitors, foreign travelers or others in Shanghai or in China)who want to learn some Chinese Mandarin.

The educational course enables students to survive daily life in Shanghai, or in China by focusing first on the Chinese phonetic system called "Pinyin" and then on basic daily conversational situations such as living, working and traveling in China. The course also enables you to "survive" in daily life in China easily.

You can take a class level according to your specific situation and requirement with the purpose of improving your ability in Mandarin gradually.

When finishing the several day courses, students will able to give a self introduction, ask for direction, take a cab, book a hotel, ordering food in a restaurant, bargaining and so on.

3. Cultural Program

We also offer the oriental cultural training such as Chinese Painting, Calligraphy, Chinese Music Instrument Playing, Chinese Chess, Chinese Tea Tasting, Chinese Cooking, Kungfu, Taiji, Yoga and so on. We also help you to explain to your wondering about China, its culture, its history; introduce the difference between oriental and western cultures and so on.   

The Duration:  one day or more days or one day to one week.

Accommodation: We can help you arrange a hotel, apartment, or home-stay, during your stay in Shanghai.

 The Arrangement of the time One week Schedule (it is your freedom to choose how many days tour and mandarin learning). 

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In modern Chinese culture, people ignore a cultural component or a renaissance of cultural phenomena in Chinese history, such phenomena had been overwhelmingly flourishing for about 30 years though a very short time in Chinese 5,000 years' history it influenced a whole generation completely. This cultural component is called traditional Chinese comic books (comic strips) or called old comic books which popularized all over China especially in the period of planned economy from 1955 to 1985.


Traditional Chinese comic book is one of the Chinese paintings that describe the story by elaborate unique line drawing pictures on every page with annotation in Chinese characters, so it also called picture-story book. Its pictures were mainly drawn by brush and ink, the painting is more based on realism, the painter drew beautifully every thing in the page as the real ones so it took painter much long time to design, sketch and to finish one book. But the present comic books issuing in the market, influenced by western cartoon, are all painted as the flash cartoons, one painter can paint or draw a book in a very short time. So the old comic book is pretty Chinese traditional but present comic book is not but more westernized



The Typical Epoch -China Culture Revolution Reflected in Traditional Chinese Comics China culture Revolution is also included in that periods, the comic books published in that time usually reflect a extreme society, all traditional cultures were destroyed or forbidden but the comic books at that time developed unexpectedly. The comic books published in the period of China Culture Revolution (1966-1976) is pretty special, displaying the typical features of that typical and radical time, all comic books focus on politics, class struggle.
The political speciality of these comic books makes them a limitless high value as well as their artistic value. In addition, these comic books published during the 10 years of China Culture Revolution, were all out of print even many of them were ruined after the Culture Revolution only very limit comic books still exist but they are kept by collectors as the historic legacy. All these comic books published in Culture Revolution are turning to be more and more valuable as the time goes by. The style of the pictures and contents during that time often reflected political struggle usually we call it class struggle between the labor class and capitalist class. The
comic books tried to show how the labor class defeated the capitalist class.
In particular, many of these comic books, usually each front page were set with the Quote of Chairman Mao.
The following are Chairman Mao's Quotes.
The left one is:" all people in the world should be united to defeat American invaders and its puppets."
The right one is:"never forget class and class struggle."
Besides Chairman Mao's Quotation, some pictures also set a Chairman Mao's image on the page to show people's love to their leader.
Some of the comic books would like to use red colors to show such a flourishing times because red represented the Leftist the red also represented loyalty to the country to the socialism to the Party according to the history, and some of them would like to paint the figure with a book written by chairman Mao Zedong held in hand, it means the people in China would like to read the book written by chairman Mao Zedong because the books written by Chairman Mao is the overall guideline of Chinese politics, economy, culture and education during that times.

I have still a lot of the pictures which can display the Chinese Culture Revolution much in detail. If anyone is interested in Chinese culture can contact me please.
The pictures in this articles are all from my collections. I have collected more than 2,500 piece of the comic books published 30 years ago in that speical and radical society.

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