Shanghai’s Forgotten Courtyard

By Tina Kanagaratnam | July 31st, 2019 | Buildings, Concession Era, French Concession, People | 0 Comment

You’d think there’d be no more surprises left in Shanghai - surely drones, digital maps, and amateur historians have unearthed them all. But here, just a building’s breadth from busy Wulumuqi Lu, stands a timeless Chinese courtyard house. Imagine away everything around it, and this house could be from a thousand ...