Public parks are oases of calm in modern Shanghai. Open, healing, and free for all, they are where people retreat to after a hard day’s work, an argument, or a breakup. They provide the space to calm ...

We attended a marriage market. It's inside People's Park, a wooded expanse of the giant city of Shanghai. This is a scene. AOWEN CAO: Yeah. INSKEEP: There's hundreds of people here.

UPDATE: March 14, 2017, 3:38 p.m. SGT Updated with response from Erin Peisert. That's certainly one way to get noticed. At the Shanghai marriage market, parents of single folks gather to show off ...