Nonetheless, the current initiative cuts especially deep in Laoximen, where some locals proudly wear their neighborhood’s status as an unpretentious, if fast-fading, corner of Old Shanghai. As the ...

This is old Shanghai. A Shanghai left behind by time and development, overlooked by the hordes of expatriates and tourists and often even ignored by other Shanghainese, except those who have no ...

Determined to capture the city before it disappeared, Girard began photographing the city’s old neighborhoods. Over the course of eight years, Girard captured the ghosts of Shanghai — the ...

Old Shanghai -- A Lost Age, text by Wu Liang with photos from Shanghai Library, co-published by Foreign Languages Press and Jiangsu Fine Arts Publishing House, pp 240, Price: 80 yuan (US$9.60 ...

Shanghai in the 1920s and ’30s was one of the world’s most modern, vibrant cities. And the city’s richest man was Victor Sassoon, a Jazz Age Richard Branson who gave costume parties in the ...

Their stories reminded me of my family’s story. I knew that old Shanghai was home to a significant Jewish community, but I didn’t know it had left such a mark on the city. During my three days ...

This year rings in the Chinese year of the bull—a good marketing hook for an old Shanghai slaughterhouse turned art hub. Constructed in its namesake year, 1933 was built from Portsmouth concrete ...