From Elvin & Skinner's Chinese City Between Two Worlds

Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

• Swatow Opium Guild 潮惠会馆, on the Chinese Bund

  A rare view of Chaohui Guildhall 潮惠会馆 (known to the westerners as Swatow Opium Guild), founded in 1839 by the natives of Chaoyang and Huizhou…

• Art over Lunch: Drawing Shanghai’s Old Town (March 26)

  Qiaojia Road. Drawing by Lily Ng, from the Drawing Shanghai group. Reference: https://toniski.livejournal.com/ For over a year now, a…

• Gated alleys of Shanghai

  I don't know the exact location of this gated alley photographed in 1909 by Thomas C. Chamberlin, but carved ornaments in the corners under…