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This dreamy video is making rounds in Shanghai-loving circles. Western women in corsets and wide-legged trousers riding on bicycles are quite something!


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Sun Sun Co. department store 新新百货公司
Built in 1924-1925, opened in January 1926.
Architect: C. H. Gonda
Address: 720 East Nanjing Road 南京东路720好

Read the article in Russian in magazeta: https://magazeta.com/arc-xinxin/


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Alfred Döblin, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz, admitted in 1928: "I can write everywhere: at home, on the street, in the restaurant - but really only in Berlin. Without the city I feel distracted."

I'd have to change "in Berlin" to "about Shanghai."


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1903. Metropole Hotel used to the stand on the northwest corner:

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https://magazeta.com/2019/02/louza/


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This article is adapted from the Russian-language piece in Magazeta.


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Nanjing Road, near Shanxi Road, looking west toward the famous department stores (click image to see the location):

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Here are some images of familiar locations in the midst of the Cultural Revolution. There is no violence but a lot of cheering. All the photos are from the Getty Images, except for the last.

1966. People are scaling the facade of the Wing On department store on Nanjing Road, tearing down the signage:

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The documentary 'China on Film' is wonderful. I particularly liked the 'zoom-enhance' sequence, where the archivist demonstrates how he used historic images of Nanjing Road to find out where the 1900s footage was taken:

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Archival footage of Nanjing Road in the British Film Archive - which cannot be viewed outside the UK, unfortunately.


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