Sino-western cultural exchange envoy Rose Oliver: Traditional Chinese culture adds special glamour to the city

Rose Oliver during her interview with Eastday.com at Shanghai University

Since the reform and opening up that swept China, and with the ensuing rapid economic development, a large number of foreigners have flocked to Shanghai. The most numerous new arrivals are white-collars bustling between buildings, entrepreneurs looking for gaps in the market, or night owls appearing in the bars in the downtown areas. Bucking the trend is a foreign female Tai Chi master dressed in a traditional white Tai Chi uniform who teaches Tai Chi in a local park. She is Rose Oliver, MBE (Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire), a Shanghai Magnolia Silver Award winner and founder of the Double Dragon Alliance, an organization dedicated to celebrating martial arts and other aspects of Chinese culture, as well as Coordinator of the International Teaching Faculty at Shanghai University.

Came to Shanghai for further Tai Chi study

Rose was practicing Tai Chi with her late master Dong Bing