Parts of Shanghai’s Lao Cheng, by its Mandarin name — the original port city established in the 1290s — are demolished every passing month, but large swaths of the old neighborhoods remain.

We couldn’t decide what impressed us most about Shanghai when my wife and I first visited in 2001. Was it the obvious energy of the city? Or was it the contrast between old and new? Our tour ...

His parents met and married in the Chinese city of Harbin. He shows a picture of himself, age four, atop his father's shoulders, after the family had moved to Shanghai. "I've always loved this ...

Wu is not the only person who treasures Laoximen: The area is beloved by historians, too. Laoximen — whose name means “Old West Gate” in Chinese — is one of the last vestiges of Shanghai’s precolonial ...

The Old City of Shanghai has become a photo-taking magnet after an artist transformed one of its streets into a feline thoroughfare festooned with cat murals. Shanghai-born artist and cartoonist ...

Shanghai city guide: Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in China’s gleaming metropolis. From old school to ultra modern, soups to skyscrapers, Chris Beanland finds that visitors will never be ...

What books can show me other facets of the city? Wei Hui’s novel “Shanghai Baby” epitomizes a late 1990s/early 2000s micro-trend in China when young urban women wrote racy novels about sex ...