Historic Shanghai
Tina KanagaratnamOld Shanghai: The buildings, the people, the stories.
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Shanghai's Lost Chinese City
Back in the ‘90s, in a Shanghai flea market, I came across a set of faded postcards depicting a cache of 1930s Chinese Art Deco buildings that I’d never seen before. I assumed that they were long gone.
Not at all, said the seller.
These b...
Mr President Goes to China (1972 edition)
Shanghai Nostalgia and the 1972 Nixon Visit
Trump’s China visit has us all nostalgic about previous U.S. Presidential visits, but that’s nothing compared to the nostalgia that the very first American Presidential China trip evoked.
On Plane Trees, Choice, and Correcting History
The plane trees, says my downstairs neighbor Mrs G., have been beheaded. She is absolutely incandescent with rage about this, and really, who can blame her?
For the last two years, the trees on our charming old French Concession street hav...
The Shanghai Foreigners' Cemetery
Every year on Tomb-Sweeping Day or Qingming 清明, Chinese honor their ancestors by cleaning their graves and leaving offerings.
The graves in the Shanghai Foreigners’ Cemetery, though, remain quiet. The staff, bless them, meticulously clean...
POP UP! Paul French in Shanghai; March Events
Sunday March 22, 7pm
POP UP! An Evening with Paul French in Shanghai
RMB 100 members, 200 nonmembers
He’s back!
Paul French, the bestselling author who’s chronicled so much of Old China in his books, joins us on Sunday, March 22, f...
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Shanghai history writer, researcher, reader; Historic Shanghai cofounder. In Shanghai since 1997. All about Shanghai, mostly past but present too.
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