Shanghai’s terraced lane houses, some in Shikumen style, are an unusual fusion of east and west architecture, and a legacy of the British, who had established a settlement in the port city in ...

Contemporary Shanghai is a city of constant speed and throbbing energy, its people desperately trying to make up for decades of lost opportunity that saw the once-vibrant port sink into decline ...

However, many of Shanghai's natives miss the old life. Wang Meijun, 22, ... Doug Young has lived in a row-style old house on Yuyuan Road for two years. According to Young, ...

Surprises in old Shanghai. ... nowhere marches faster into the 21st century than Shanghai. Beneath a Manhattan-style skyline, ... recalling the 1930s cinema houses once so common in Britain.

One of the best-preserved old lanes in Shanghai, the elegant Longmencun was first established in 1865 but its current 76 mansions and lilong houses were constructed between 1905 and 1934.

A couple dressed in the style of Shanghai in the 1920s and ’30s on Duolun Lu, a street that reflects some of that era. ... but also the rows of old houses that sit alongside it. ...

Shanghai residents passing through the city’s eastern Huangpu district in October might have stumbled upon an unusual sight: a “walking” building. An 85-year-old primary school has been ...

SHANGHAI — When Wu Weigang was a child, he loved Lunar New Year more than anything. In Laoximen, the history-steeped corner of Shanghai where he grew up, the air fizzed with the sound of exploding ...

In Shanghai, the largest most prosperous city in China, visitors are attracted by the dazzling tall buildings and varied nightlife. But the old Shanghai streets are also suggested for a walk, as ...

Shanghai residents passing through the city’s eastern Huangpu district in October might have stumbled upon an unusual sight: a “walking” building. An 85-year-old primary school has been ...