The Chaste Widow of the Shanghai Racetrack

By Tina Kanagaratnam | August 29th, 2023 | Eric Moller | 0 Comment

The Chaste Widow’s Monument, an 18th century memorial arch on the old racecourse, was a legacy of Shanghai before the foreigners came, a bow to an ancient Confucian virtue that stood stubbornly on the racecourse infield until the 1950s. Restored in the 1940s by shipping tycoon and Shanghailander Eric Moller, it was one of ...