Sweet Old Shanghai: Heritage Bakeries
February is sweet season (you know - sweethearts, sweet delights...) so just in time for Valentine’s Day, we take a look at Shanghai’s surviving heritage bakeries and legacy of Western pastry classics. A selection of Shanghai heritage pastry classics from Kaisiling - Left, clockwise from top: Napoleon, chestnut ...
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Roar, China! Langston Hughes in Shanghai
February is Black History month, and Shanghai has a fascinating, hidden history of Black American poets, activists, and musicians. Our Shanghai Black History walk (Sunday Feb 23) is sold out, but you can sign up for the wait list here. Langston Hughes, the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, spent three months ...
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Sikhs in Shanghai
From the word "Bund" to Bombay millionaires and Parsi merchants, Indians were a presence in Old Shanghai since the beginning. Our "Indians in Old Shanghai" walk this Saturday will cover the traces and places of this diverse, vibrant Indian community, but here, guest blogger Meena Vathyam shares the story of the most visible ...
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The Evolution of Shanghai Fashion
Shanghai has long been considered a cosmopolitan city, China's hub of East-meets-West cultural exchange, open to new and foreign ideas, inventions, and even clothing. The rapid modernization and 'opening up' of China during the first half of the twentieth century influenced the ways in which the people of Shanghai ...
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