Historic Shanghai

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The Doyenne: Tess Johnston on drugs, taxi dancers and Historic Shanghai

January 26th, 2008 · No Comments

Tess Johnston is a Shanghai institution.  She’s been documenting Shanghai’s disappearing historic buildings for a quarter of a century – so long that many of the buildings she and her partner Erh Dongqiang featured in the original 1992 edition of A Last Look: Western Architecture in Shanghai are just a memory.

As usual, Tess is so modest and […]

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Historic Shanghai featured in the Shanghai Daily

January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

See an article on the “new and improved” Historic Shanghai in the 23 January 2008 edition of the Shanghai Daily.

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