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Historic Places

• The Tycoon & The Artist at No. 3 Baoqing Road
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 8, 2025
• The Classical Gardens of Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  April 21, 2025
• The Shanghai Foreigners’ Cemetery
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 31, 2025
• Tower of Vice: Shanghai’s Great World
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 12, 2025
• The Soong House on Seymour Road: A Pictorial Tour
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 15, 2024
• The Garden Bridge: Misunderstanding, War, and a Century’s Worth of History
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 24, 2024
• St. Theresa’s Church: A Shanghai Story
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  November 29, 2023
• McTyeire: The School for China’s Daughters
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  September 13, 2023
• The Chaste Widow of the Shanghai Racetrack
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 29, 2023
• Tour Report: Inside Marble Hall, The Kadoorie Mansion
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 31, 2023
• Shanghai Community Church
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 25, 2023
• The Street Formerly Known As Wulumuqi Road
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  November 29, 2022
• The Royal Asiatic Society Building: The Museum on Museum Road
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 21, 2022
• Hidden Histories: The Shanghai Shanty
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 27, 2021
• Shanghai’s Little White House
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 15, 2021
• AstraZeneca, Shanghai, and the fall of the Qing Dynasty
  by Guest
  May 23, 2021
• Chin Woo Athletic Association Buildings
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  October 18, 2020
• Inside Hardoon’s Garden
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  June 19, 2020
• Shanghai’s Hidden Ming Temple
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 9, 2019
• Shanghai’s Forgotten Courtyard
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 31, 2019
• Shanghai’s Preserved Heritage Roads
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  October 16, 2017
• Hazelwood: The Taipan’s Retreat
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 20, 2017
• The Interview: Katya Knyazeva on Shanghai’s Old Town
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 4, 2016
• Shanghai Synagogue: The House of Rachel
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 8, 2015
• Columbia Country Club
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 22, 2015

Art Deco

• Shanghai Art Deco Apartments: Five Fun Facts
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 14, 2025
• The Tycoon & The Artist at No. 3 Baoqing Road
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 8, 2025
• Treaty Port Gulangyu
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  November 10, 2021

Shanghai People

• The Tycoon & The Artist at No. 3 Baoqing Road
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 8, 2025
• Shanghai Spring: Violet Cress, An Ancient Hero, and a Peace Sign
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 17, 2025
• Shanghai’s Sun Yat-sen Statue
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 12, 2025
• Betty Grebenschikoff: A Shanghai Ghetto Survivor’s Lessons of the Holocaust
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 11, 2025
• László Hudec: Shanghai’s Master Builder
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 8, 2025
• Half of a Lifelong Friendship
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 22, 2024
• Alexandre Léonard: The Man. The Art Deco. The Mystery.
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 21, 2024
• The Kidnapping of Wei Tingrong
  by Guest
  October 31, 2023
• No Exit: David Marshall and the Last Jews of Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  November 15, 2022
• Stateless in Shanghai: Living History with Liliane Willens
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  October 14, 2022
• Shanghai Gangsters: The Big Eight Mob
  by Guest
  August 26, 2022
• Shanghai’s Cathedral School for Girls: A Ballerina, A Sci-Fi Author, and Mao
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 16, 2022
• Girl Reporters: The Newswomen of Old Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 4, 2022
• Selling the Ruan Lingyu Drama: Tragedy, Irony, and Exploitation in a 1934 Ad
  by Guest
  March 7, 2022
• School Above the Sea: Shanghai Municipal Council Polytechnic Public School
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 30, 2021
• The Forgotten Bride in the Shanghai Lane
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  July 29, 2021
• Cai Zhen: Painter of Old Shanghai
  by Wm Patrick Cranley
  August 11, 2019
• Roar, China! Langston Hughes in Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 28, 2017
• Sikhs in Shanghai
  by Guest
  March 1, 2016
• British Royals & Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 3, 2015
• The Interview: “Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Lives” with Jie Li
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  November 27, 2014
• The Interview: Researching Old Shanghai with Greg Leck
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 21, 2014
• Yankee Journalists in Old China
  by Wm Patrick Cranley
  July 26, 2014

Historic Events

• The Shanghai Paper Hunt
  by Amandari Kanagaratnam
  March 28, 2025
• Presents from the Past: Christmas Shopping in Old Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 2, 2024
• Thanksgiving in Old Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  November 23, 2023
• Queen Elizabeth II in Shanghai
  by Wm Patrick Cranley
  September 9, 2022
• The Battle of Shanghai: An Illustrated Guide
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 9, 2022
• The Creative Ambiguity of the Shanghai Communiqué
  by Wm Patrick Cranley
  February 27, 2022
• 1972 Nixon Visit: How Shanghai Changed Since 1946
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 21, 2022
• The ’20s Gala: Farewell, 2020, Hello, 1920s!
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 31, 2020
• Historic Shanghai Year in Review 2019
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 31, 2019
• 5 Reasons to Visit the Old City Right Now
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 19, 2019
• The Shanghai Snows of Yesteryear
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 25, 2018
• Historic Shanghai Year in Review 2017
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 31, 2017
• Historic Shanghai’s Year in Review 2015
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 19, 2015
• 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Old Shanghai
  by Amandari Kanagaratnam
  August 6, 2014

Books

• Farewell, Tess
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  September 15, 2025
• Paul French on “City of Devils”
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  June 16, 2025
• Bookshelf: HOMESEEKING by Karissa Chen
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  May 13, 2025
• The Classical Gardens of Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  April 21, 2025
• Exploring Shanghai’s Literary Heritage: Murder in the Maloo
  by Guest
  April 6, 2025
• Half of a Lifelong Friendship
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 22, 2024
• Bookshelf: Bernardine’s Shanghai Salon: The Story of the Doyenne of Old China
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 11, 2024
• Bookshelf: The Sassoons: The Great Global Merchants and the Making of an Empire
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 31, 2023
• Girl Reporters: The Newswomen of Old Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 4, 2022
• Book Review: Witness to History: From Vienna to Shanghai: A Memoir of Escape, Survival and Resilience
  by Guest
  April 25, 2022
• Bookshelf: Rumors from Shanghai with Amy Sommers
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  April 8, 2021
• Best Shanghai History Books 2019
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 6, 2020
• Historic Shanghai’s Best Books of 2018
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 2, 2019
• Top 10 Historic Shanghai Gifts: Our Annual Guide
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 9, 2018
• Stray Birds on the Huangpu: A History of Indians in Old Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 14, 2018
• Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 5, 2018
• Roar, China! Langston Hughes in Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 28, 2017
• Memoirs: Russians in old Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 15, 2016
• Bookshelf: Death in Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 2, 2016
• The Interview: Katya Knyazeva on Shanghai’s Old Town
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 4, 2016
• Historic Shanghai’s Best Books of 2015
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 6, 2015
• In Conversation: Patricia Luce Chapman – An American Girl in Wartime Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  April 15, 2015
• Historic Shanghai’s Best Books, 2014
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 13, 2015

Culture

• Shanghai Umbrellas for the Plum Rains
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  June 10, 2025
• Shanghai Spring: Violet Cress, An Ancient Hero, and a Peace Sign
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 17, 2025
• Memories of Chinese New Year in Old Shanghai
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 29, 2025
• The Shanghai Garden in Winter: Wintersweet
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  January 22, 2025
• 1950s Shanghai Fashion: Making New Clothes from Old
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 2, 2023
• Old Shanghai Beers
  by Guest
  July 2, 2023
• Last Call: Keven Café, the French Concession’s Diner
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 13, 2023
• The Astoria Confectionary & Tea-Room
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 6, 2023
• Vintage Shanghai Comedy: “Da Li, Xiao Li & Lao Li 大李，小李和老李“
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 11, 2022
• Sweet Old Shanghai: Heritage Bakeries
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  February 2, 2022
• Shanghai’s Hidden Ming Temple
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 9, 2019
• The Ultimate Historic Shanghai Gift Guide 2019
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 2, 2019
• Old Shanghai Cinemas: Insights from a Logbook
  by Guest
  August 25, 2019
• Cicadas: Shanghai’s Summer Song
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  August 5, 2019
• Old Shanghai Eggnog
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 17, 2018
• Top 10 Historic Shanghai Gifts: Our Annual Guide
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 9, 2018
• The Shanghai Beret Project
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  March 27, 2018
• A Short History of Gluttony In Shanghai
  by Guest
  March 12, 2018
• The Historic Shanghai Gift Guide
  by Tina Kanagaratnam
  December 13, 2017
• 5 Things You Didn’t Know About Old Shanghai
  by Amandari Kanagaratnam
  August 6, 2014
• Mr. Pan & the Culty Dairy
  by Amandari Kanagaratnam
  July 26, 2014