Shanghai Zoo

This guide to Shanghai Zoo follows Ya Ya, a giant panda whose 2023 return from two decades on loan to a zoo in Memphis, Tennessee became one of China's most watched stories, after photos of her thinning fur set off an online dispute over whose fault it was. It traces what happened when she arrived here for a month of quiet quarantine, tended around the clock by keepers sent from Beijing, away from cameras and crowds. Listen for how little the public actually saw of that month, and how much people online still claimed to notice.