From Elvin & Skinner's Chinese City Between Two Worlds

Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

• This day in history – well, almost (1912)

  It was around this time in January, in 1912, that the old wall around Shanghai's Chinese City began to be torn down. Here is a photo published in…

• R. I. P. Wangyima Lane 王医马弄 (900s–2019)

  Wangyima Lane 王医马弄 neighborhood was the last patch of medieval city fabric in central Shanghai. Nowhere else in the old town – not even in the…

• The toads have spoken...

  https://www.shine.cn/news/metro/1911206485/ ...and announced a revamp and a facelift. It will not end well for the poor old town... "The…