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. […]
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Bridge of Misunderstanding
February 15th, 2008 · 9 Comments
Tags: 19th century shanghai · architecture · economic history · international settlement · shanghai today · the bund
Resurrecting an Old Shanghai Institution: the RAS
February 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
A band of intrepid Britishers has revived the Shanghai branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (RAS), 150 years after its establishment. The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded in London in 1823 “for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia.” The early focus of the […]
Tags: 19th century shanghai · architecture · research · social history · the bund