Shanghai

[angel80]

I have to teach about China next week. Today I was looking at pictures to entertain the kids and, inter alia, found these.

Shanghai Bund before WW1.

Comments

[microbie]

What a wonderful series of photos! I love seeing the passage of time.

[angel80]

Thx. I'm encouraged to do more in this vein.

[rfmcdpei]

Thank you.

[ironbark]

If I had my other computer I could have sent you a photo of this woderful art deco hotel on the Bund where they have had a piano bar playing daily since the 1930's. It remained open even through the Mao era. We had lunch there overlooking the river.

[angel80]

Probably the same one. I don't remember the pianist, but, hey! it was 35 years ago!

What I do remember is that I was going downstairs from the dining room to my room I met a waiter coming up singing 'Crick go the shears'!!! (the typo is deliberate).

Apparently they'd had a large group of Australian farmers in the week before.

ETA: sites on the Peace Hotel mention that pianist.

[auntysocial]

Interesting to see the changes. Looks like the road is wider in each one. Was it built out over landfill?

[angel80]

Not sure about the road, but I'd say the pedestrian walkway has been extended into the river for sure. I gather it was renovated about 3 years ago.

[maeve66]

Oh, I love urban 'time lapse' photograph sets -- thank you for these. I've read bits and pieces about Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s, but I had no idea they'd preserved the main architecture...

[angel80]

The Bund is a bit special. No idea what they've done to the rest of the city!