The 1907 Garden Bridge (in Chinese, the Waibaidu Qiao) is one of those rarest of historic treasures in Shanghai: an original structure that is still being used for the same purpose for which it was built. Imagine our shock, then, when we read recently that the Garden Bridge was to “vanish.”
No need to panic. […]
Entries Tagged as 'international settlement'
Bridge of Misunderstanding
February 15th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Tags: 19th century shanghai · architecture · economic history · international settlement · shanghai today · the bund