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Historic Shanghai

Tina Kanagaratnam

Old Shanghai: The buildings, the people, the stories.

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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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