Enthusiastic Historic Shanghai fans will recall with great fondness the very special visit to Shanghai of author and ex-Shanghailander Rena Krasno in October 2007 - what she referred to as her “farewell tour.” An active 80-something-year-old now residing in California, Rena bluffed that this would be her last visit to her childhood home. We doubt […]
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No Stranger: Rena Krasno’s Magnum Opus
January 26th, 2008 · No Comments
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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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