From Elvin & Skinner's Chinese City Between Two Worlds

Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

• Isham Cook's favorable review of Shanghai Old Town

  Out of the squalor and into the light: When the Shanghai wall came down by Isham Cook Excerpts: "..a valorous attempt at a corrective…

• Shanghai Old Town in the Garden Books store

  Photo by Marie-Astrid de Mézerac. More about the book.

• Mapping the old town in 1949-2

  A couple more photos from Jack Birns' walk through the old town. The sharp-eyed sy-随意 helped identify the corner of Fangbang Road and the…