'Help make a better Shanghai' – YMCA archives

A real trove of hi-res archival images, photos, maps and textual records, mostly related to the activities of the YMCA in China: the Online Archives of the University of Minnesota.

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Messageries Maritimes: Oldest building being demolished (1937)

OLDEST BUILDING BEING DEMOLISHED One of the oldest buildings in Shanghai, the office of the French shipping company Messageries Maritimes, was…
#117 Shanghai Architecture Series: Sun Co. Department Store

This article is adapted from the Russian-language piece in Magazeta. "Big and New" Sun Co. Department Store 大新公司 830 Nanjing Road…
Aerial views of central Shanghai from the 1990s

Found these wonderful aerial photographs taken from 1994 to 1998 here. Click any of them to enlarge. Pearl Tower under construction; Lujiazui…