From Elvin & Skinner's Chinese City Between Two Worlds

Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

• That's how I remember it!

  Harbor of Shanghai, engraving, 1859. Another one of those unrealistic views of Shanghai. Image: Getty. ...or were the mountains even more…

• Over 3,400 historic images of Shanghai mapped on PastVu

  Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here are some picks from the latest hundred images in the PastVu…

• Sea Merchants' Guildhall 商船会馆 after "restoration"

  In anticipation of the Heritage Saturday, here are some recent images of the Sea Merchants' Guildhall 商船会馆 in Dongjiadu, which will be open for…