Inside Old Shanghai’s American Club
This Saturday (Nov 2, 3pm), ahead of the U.S. election, we’re taking a stroll through the story of Americans in Old Shanghai. If there had been such a thing as election watch parties in Old Shanghai, they would certainly have been held in the stately American Club. Here’s its story, and a peek inside. To book the walk, click here.
Even with decades of unwashed grime and a chipped façade, the Georgian edifice on Fuzhou Road always maintained its grace, unbowed even by the unsavory photographs of crime busts displayed on its stately brick walls in the days when it served as a court. So back in 2018, it was especially nice to see the onetime American Club getting a thorough and seemingly sympathetic renovation before its next act – this time as the Shanghai Financial Court.
The building had been closed up tight for years, ever since the court moved out in the 1990s (save that brief, glorious moment in 2008 when the Hungarian Consulate held the Year of Hudec exhibition in the ghostly, unrenovated. space).
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