From Elvin & Skinner's Chinese City Between Two Worlds

Posts from This Journal “old town” Tag

• Over 4,100 historic images of Shanghai mapped on PastVu

  Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here is a selection of some locations from the latest hundred: A…

• Shanghai Street Directory 上海市行號路圖錄 (1947)

  Here's a little gift: the Shanghai Street Directory 上海市行号路图录/上海市行號路圖錄 (1947), including 118 detailed street maps of the former French…

• The Flaneur

  “The grand reminiscences, the tremors of history – for the true flaneur, these are rubbish to be left behind for tourists. And he…