The Soong House on Seymour Road: A Pictorial Tour
There are several Soong houses in Shanghai that you can visit, but the modest house on Shaanxi Bei Lu that was the family home for ...
Star-Crossed Lovers, Magpies & Summer Valentines
This Saturday, inspired by Qixi—“Chinese Valentine’s Day”—we’re taking a walk through the love stories of Old Shanghai in ...
The Garden Bridge: Misunderstanding, War, and a Century’s Worth of History
On July 27, we’ll take an evening stroll along the banks of the Suzhou Creek, exploring its history and some of the 31 bridges that ...
Shanghai Umbrellas for the Plum Rains
There are some things in life you can absolutely count on. Death, taxes … and the plum rains. And after a few plum rain seasons, it becomes clear that there’s just no avoiding it. Absolutely no getting around it. So you might as well embrace it—and the best way we know how is with an Old Shanghai ...
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The Shanghai Paper Hunt
This Thursday (April 4), we'll explore the stories of Hongqiao, Shanghai's fanciest suburb, on our Historic Hongqiao walk...including the legendary Shanghai Paper Hunt. The paper hunt, you ask? Grown men on horseback chasing bits of paper across the countryside. Read on ... it's weirder and more ...
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Half of a Lifelong Friendship
By Susan Blumberg-Kason // The world knew him as C.T. Hsia, the man who brought Chinese literature--and Eileen Chang--to the West. But to my dad, Avrom Blumberg, he was his old friend, Jonathan. In 1949, at the age of 21, my dad started graduate school at Yale. He quickly befriended another ...
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Alexandre Léonard: The Man. The Art Deco. The Mystery.
This Sunday, we'll explore the Art Deco buildings designed by Alexandre Léonard, one of Shanghai's most talented architects, and finish up with a special treat: a visit to the penthouse apartment where he lived--and from which he disappeared, without a trace. Will we solve the mystery of his ...
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