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Wayside Market, on Chusan (Zhoushan) Road 舟山路, built in March 1935 to replace the old building.

Soon after the completion, in 1935:

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With the kind help of sy-随意, I've been identifying the locations of Jack Birns' photographs in the old town. The intersection of Dajing Road and Luxiangyuan Road was a vibrant marketplace since at least 1927 - until the eviction of the community and near-total destruction of historic housing between 2008 and 2014 ( Read more... )

The saddest column in my blog is Then and Now. Here is Dajing Road through the ages, 1949 - 2013 - 2017:

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The Hongkew Market in the 1910s was compared with the Fulton Market, in New York, as testified by J. B. Powell in My Twenty-Five Years in China.


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