From Elvin & Skinner's Chinese City Between Two Worlds

Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

• Aerial map of Shanghai (1929)

  This aerial map of Shanghai was published in a 1929 issue of Realty Market magazine (上海地产月刊). The magazine is very interesting, and I might post more…

• Over 2,500 historic images of Shanghai mapped on PastVu

  Girl in Pudong, 1937. Image: Jonas Gunnar Andersson. The latest 100 additions to the Mapping Old Shanghai project include: A couple views of…

• My article about Shuyinlou, for SmartShanghai

  http://www.smartshanghai.com/articles/community/the-story-of-shu-yin-lou-the-oldest-house-in-shanghai