
I am borrowing this photo from Historic Shanghai's Tina Kanagaratnam to illustrate. The pigeon is not the point, obviously.

“Being an editor has done something strange to me... Already I am growing stodgy and inclined to admit there are after all two sides to every…
Now known as Muammer Karaca Tiyatro Ç ıkmaz. Image from 1906: French Foreign Affairs Archive. Image from 2018: Google Maps.
1948 vs 2015: The brick building behind the family (in the top picture) has been demolished to widen Wujin Road, but the one closer to us, seen…