Historic Shanghai
Tina KanagaratnamOld Shanghai: The buildings, the people, the stories.
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Cicadas: Shanghai's Summer Chorus
“All the different kinds of cicada are now in full song …. most noticeable is the long-drawn song of the big black cicada, whose strident screech fills the air for periods of half a minute to a minute at a time, ceases for a while, and then...
The Hidden Murals of Huaihai Villa
The murals were there, they say, when this Art Deco building on Avenue Joffre (Huaihai Road) was completed in 1947. On one wall, a girl is leaping, gazelle-like, in the woods, framed by plump cherries hanging from leafy boughs. She is compl...
Historic Shanghai's Summer Reading List 2026
LIFE AND DEATH IN SHANGHAI by Nien Cheng (1986)
2026 is the 60th anniversary of the start of the Cultural Revolution: Time to reread Nien Cheng’s classic, a tour-de-force that is the Shanghai CR memoir.
Life and Death in Shangha...
The Garden Bridge: Misunderstanding, War, and a Century of History
The 1908 Garden Bridge is that rarest of Shanghai historic treasures: an original structure still used for the purpose for which it was built. It’s quite a story.
Time was, ferries were the only way to traverse the Suzhou Creek. But in 184...
Inside Shanghai's Old American Club
When I first encountered the onetime Shanghai American Club, in 1997, it was locked up tight. It had outgrown its duties as the Shanghai People’s Court a few years earlier, but even with decades of grime and a chipped façade, the edifice on...
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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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