The Tycoon & The Artist at No. 3 Baoqing Road
Psst! Wanna get inside two hard-to-get-into heritage villas? You’ve come to the right place. Getting inside the Shanghai Symphony Museum's heritage buildings is said to be one of the city's most difficult entrées, but this Saturday (July 12), Historic Shanghai is in. More info here. Read on for the story! The ...
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Shanghai Spring: Violet Cress, An Ancient Hero, and a Peace Sign
Tiny violet flowers breaking through the wintry ground: It's one of the first signs of spring in Shanghai. The emergence of the Chinese violet cress (Orychophragmus violaceus) every March is a reassuring sign that no matter what else is going on in the world, spring will come. Violet cress appears during the solar ...
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Shanghai’s Sun Yat-sen Statue
A hundred years ago today, on March 12 1925, Sun Yat-sen drew his last breath. The untimely death of the man who overthrew imperial Qing rule and put China on the road to modernity ushered in a multitude of commemorations around the country and around the world: a mausoleum, memorial halls, statues in his likeness. Sun was ...
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Betty Grebenschikoff: A Shanghai Ghetto Survivor’s Lessons of the Holocaust
On Sunday February 16, 2pm, we'll visit the former Shanghai Jewish Ghetto, where we'll hear the incredible stories of 20,000 people who fled Nazi Europe for the safe haven of Shanghai. People like Betty Grebenschikoff. To book: https://jinshuju.net/f/keytg2 Betty Grebenschikoff was one of the most active members of the ...
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László Hudec: Shanghai’s Master Builder
You know Hudec’s buildings: The I.S.S. Building/Normandie (Wukang Apartments), that red brick beauty shaped like a streamlined 1930s cruise ship, where hundreds gather daily, waves beneath the ship, to snap a precious photo. The Park Hotel, the dramatic Art Deco building that was Shanghai’s first skyscraper and tallest ...
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Half of a Lifelong Friendship
By Susan Blumberg-Kason // The world knew him as C.T. Hsia, the man who brought Chinese literature--and Eileen Chang--to the West. But to my dad, Avrom Blumberg, he was his old friend, Jonathan. In 1949, at the age of 21, my dad started graduate school at Yale. He quickly befriended another graduate student named ...
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Alexandre Léonard: The Man. The Art Deco. The Mystery.
You can't talk about Art Deco in Shanghai without talking about the immensely talented Alexandre Léonard. One of the city's leading French architects during the Art Deco age, Léonard designed villas, apartment houses, and civic buildings that would become landmarks of the former French Concession and define the Shanghai ...
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