Substack

Coming soon!

Since 1998, Historic Shanghai’s been known for history-focused city walks: wandering through heritage buildings as we tell Old Shanghai’s stories through its architecture. That’s what our new Substack is, too, just in newsletter form.

We’re finally putting down all those stories we tell on our walks—almost 30 years’ worth! And we’re going deeper, down way more rabbit holes. Exclusive to Substack: “The Pulse”, the latest on what’s happening in historic neighborhoods, landmarks, and whatever other goss we pick up on the street. There’ll be old Shanghai snippets, book reviews, and things we can’t always share on the ground here (IYKYK).

Our community chat will discuss topics around Shanghai heritage, city memory, our memories, and more.

Read for free, or upgrade to paid for special premium subscriber-only posts, the full Historic Shanghai archive, and to be able to post comments and engage with the community.

Free

-Selected new articles each month on our favorite topic, Old Shanghai – places, people, architecture, books, the current state of the historic city.

-Selected articles from “The Pulse” on the latest in historic neighborhoods

-Book Reviews

Upgrade to paid

US$5 month or US$50 annually, save 17% with annual subscription, for:

-Subscriber only-posts

-Access to all the newest articles

-Access to the full Historic Shanghai archive

-Stories we can’t always tell in China

-The Pulse: exclusive to Substack, the latest in what’s happening in historic neighborhoods

-Book reviews

-Closed community discussions on topics around Shanghai heritage, post comments and join the community!

-And our endless, heartfelt appreciation for your support of the work we do to tell Shanghai’s story in all its dimensions.

Questions? info@historic-shanghai.com