Thirty million people. The longest metro network in the world. A district called Pudong that, thirty-five years ago, was still made up of rice paddies. And a logic Deng Xiaoping once put this way: “It doesn’t matter whether the cat is black or white—as long as it catches mice.”

Seazen writer Dr. Thomas Hauer traveled to Shanghai and wrote about a city that pulls its visitors in, that astonishes, indulges, and amuses. Live on the night, he’ll share what he experienced—including his visit to the AP House there. A PhD in literary studies and philosophy, longtime restaurant inspector for a leading German gastronomy guide, author and editor of several books on taste. His second passion alongside food: Asia.

Seazen writer, raised between Germany and the United States, at home anywhere there’s something out of the ordinary to see: trekking in the Ruwenzori Mountains, heliskiing in Alaska’s Tordrillos, a week on the Camino de Santiago, a cave house in Cappadocia. On the side, he works with Mercedes-Maybach at events like the Hotel du Cap during the Cannes Film Festival, or the Concours at Pebble Beach.

This evening, he moderates the two talks and the conversation between the worlds of Switzerland and Shanghai.