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 ...

Director James Ivory confessed during filming that it was extremely difficult to recreate old Shanghai amid the futuristic skyscrapers going up at record speed in this city of 16 million people.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“It’s quite different from today’s Shanghai,” said a Chinese-American businessman who lives in Chicago and is a regular visitor to Duolun Lu, as he sipped tea at the Old Film Café (123 ...

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 ...