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: Katya Knyazeva (avezink) wrote,
2020-08-30 12:54:00

Katya Knyazeva
avezink
2020-08-30 12:54:00

Qiaojia Road – new art and old photographs

The days of Qiaojia Road are numbered, and what better tribute to this street's historic landscape, than an artist's eye studying and reproducing it? I admire this team.

Artist: Lily Ng.

More works are in the original post, dedicated to the group's recent excursion to the nearby Yuanyangting Lane: https://toniski.livejournal.com/2675.html

And here are some historic photographs of Qiaojia Road.

Home of Xu Guangqi, 234–244 Qiaojia Road:

Same location, view in the opposite direction, toward east:

Qiaojia Road when it was still a creek:

Wang Yiting and guests at the Catalpa Garden 梓园, 113 Qiaojia Road:

See more in this FB post.

Tags: 1900s, 1910s, art, creek, demolition, old town, qiaojia road, qing era, redevelopment, shanghai, 乔家路, 老城厢

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Qiaojia Road – new art and old photographs

Alexandr Ivelsky’s memoir of 1940’s Shanghai

Book on Russia-China border relations in history

A curious recent book

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