The Royal Asiatic Society Building: The Museum on Museum Road

By Tina Kanagaratnam | July 21st, 2022 | Architects, Architecture, Buildings, Old Shanghai, RockBund, Royal Asiatic Society Shanghai, Shanghai Art Deco | 0 Comment

I first saw the old building in the summer of 2000, coming out of a lane on Huqiu Lu. It stood there, in all its modernist majesty, still glorious despite half a century of neglect. We asked the residents at the lane entrance just opposite the building about it. One middle-aged man, shirt doffed in the stifling Shanghai ...