The Shanghai Foreigners’ Cemetery
Bringing flowers to the Foreigners’ Cemetery at Soong Ching Ling Memorial Park has become something of an Historic Shanghai ...
The Shanghai Paper Hunt
Our April 4 walk takes us to Historic Hongqiao, where Shanghailanders partook in all kinds of outdoor activities, none stranger or ...
Shanghai Spring: Violet Cress, An Ancient Hero, and a Peace Sign
Tiny violet flowers breaking through the wintry ground: It's one of the first signs of spring in Shanghai. The emergence of the ...
Tower of Vice: Shanghai’s Great World
There’s no more notorious symbol of Old Shanghai’s underworld than the pleasure palace that was the Great World—after all, this tiered wedding cake of a building was owned by one of the most powerful gangsters in the city: Huang Jinrong, aka Pockmarked Huang. Read on, for the story: But ...
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Shanghai’s Sun Yat-sen Statue
A hundred years ago today, on March 12 1925, Sun Yat-sen drew his last breath. The untimely death of the man who overthrew imperial Qing rule and put China on the road to modernity ushered in a multitude of commemorations around the country and around the world: a mausoleum, memorial halls, statues in ...
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Betty Grebenschikoff: A Shanghai Ghetto Survivor’s Lessons of the Holocaust
On Sunday February 16, 2pm, we'll visit the former Shanghai Jewish Ghetto, where we'll hear the incredible stories of 20,000 people who fled Nazi Europe for the safe haven of Shanghai. People like Betty Grebenschikoff. To book: https://jinshuju.net/f/keytg2 Betty Grebenschikoff was one of the most ...
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Memories of Chinese New Year in Old Shanghai
新年快乐！Xin Nian Kuai Le! As we welcome the Year of the Snake in a world of WeChat hongbaos and electronic firecrackers, we wondered: what was Chinese New Year like in old Shanghai? So we went to the experts: the men and women who grew up here. Here are their memories of Shanghai Chinese New ...
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