Moments in August
Wearing popular costumes one hundred years ago, kids play traditional outdoor games at the local memorial hall of renown Chinese educator Cai Yuanpei on Huashan Road. Young visitors to the memorial hall are involved in mini shows and games so that they can better understand the educator's life and his time.
Customers snooze on sofas at a furniture store in Xujiahui.
Two retirees play Chinese chess in Xiangyang Park, as a man with a rolled-up T-shirt looks on. Some Chinese middle-aged men love to roll their T-shirts up above their bellies to cool down in summer. Impressed expatriates have nicknamed it the “Beijing bikini.”
Qixin Road might have been flooded on August 10 but this woman was still able to keep messaging, despite the water.
The approach of Typhoon Lekima did not deter this man from fishing near Shuiqing Road Bridge in Minhang District.
Passersby who entered this “story store” on Yuyuan Road are asked to write down their memories of the road and neighborhood. They will be compiled into a book in October to commemorate the road’s 100-year history.
A young woman uses a roadside electricity distribution box on Dapu Road as a desk at 9pm to catch up on work.
