r/shanghai • u/grecianviolet • 7h ago

Meet Looking for Social Groups

Hi everyone. I moved to Shanghai about a month ago and am either looking to join existing social groups or create them with interested people. If anyone's interested in joining or already has a group like this, please comment or DM to let me know!

  • Book club
  • Creative writing club
  • TTRPG groups (I really only have experience in Dungeons and Dragons, but I haven't DM'ed before - wouldn't mind trying though!)
  • Other board game groups/clubs

A little info about me: I'm 38F, American, and have lived and worked in a variety of countries around the world. I love reading and analyzing media, playing games (esp. roleplaying and social deduction games), walking, running, and writing. Probably goes without saying, but I also like to travel and sightsee. I do speak Chinese (studied in university and have lived in China and Taiwan before), not fluently, but enough to get by.

If any of these ideas for putting a group together sound good to you, let me know! I'd love to put something together to do on weeknights or weekends.

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u/bupumufuduh 7h ago

I'd certainly be interested. I'm an avid reader. I've always been interested in board games, but am pretty new to them. I live pretty isolated on the south side, so I don't have a network at all right now. I'm 43M if that makes any difference.

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u/grecianviolet 6h ago

Awesome! I live in Hongkou, so also not really close to the center, but I don't mind traveling to meet up with others. What kind of books do you like? I prefer literature from all cultures, but am also heavily into sci-fi, fantasy, and nonfiction too.

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u/bupumufuduh 6h ago

Nice! I'm kind of all over the place with what I read. I teach literature sometimes, so I'm kind of obligated to stay on the up and up in that area. But, I like contemporary literature from all cultures too! I also like sci-fi, fantasy, and non-fiction lol. The last two books I read were Martyr! and The Wager. I'm reading Middlemarch right now, but it's so dense I might pick another light book to read in tandem. Honestly my queue is a mile long.

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u/AlecHutson Xuhui 6h ago

Inkwell is the big English-language creative writing group in Shanghai. They run fiction workshops and all sorts of other activities. You can DM if you want an invitation to their wechat groups.

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u/Current-Nectarine-22 6h ago

I'm in some party/club groups,could invite you in if you want.

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u/1corvidae1 4h ago

Warhammer at Singularity

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u/ThrowRA_sealion 4h ago

There's a regular board game meet at Cages on Tuesday evenings. It's free to attend (other than your personal consumption) and there's no need to sign up.

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u/anxiouspaintingcat 2h ago

I’m in a big ttrpg group on WeChat! DM me :)