The internet erupted in debate about whether Shanghai, China's largest city, has turned into a "ghost town" following a viral tweet showing empty streets. Author Michael Yon posted photographs ...

The idea of producing the first English-language guide to Shanghai's original urban core - old town (lao chengxiang), occurred to Katya Knyazeva, a Siberian freelance journalist and photographer, when ...

The Shanghai I live in now is not the same city I moved to with my family last summer, before the COVID-19 outbreak. I loved watching poker-faced grannies dancing in synchrony on street corners, ...

In Shanghai’s historic Bund district, visitors circle a new theater with a brash – and slowly rotating – veneer of bronze-colored steel bamboo. Beside it, a pair of recently completed 590-foot-tall ...

The complex responds to this urban context in several ways. Twin rectilinear glass skyscrapers, their frames clad in in textured granite, mark the south end of the Bund riverfront. At 180m high, they ...

The recently excavated relics at the local Guangfulin archaeological site indicate that Shanghai may have been a magnet for migrants more than 4,000 years ago. Many new archaeo-logical evidence ...

Shanghai may be the crown jewel of the New China, but the Pearl of the Orient gleamed just as brightly during the late 1930s, when this infamous port city was synonymous with pleasure, power and money ...

This year rings in the Chinese year of the bull—a good marketing hook for an old Shanghai slaughterhouse turned art hub. Constructed in its namesake year, 1933 was built from Portsmouth concrete ...