Historic Shanghai
Articles about Historic Shanghai
Hazelwood: The Last Taipan Mansion
The stately Butterfield and Swire taipan’s mansion--”the only gentleman’s house in the place”--was designed from afar by an architect who never set foot in Shanghai.
Inside Marble Hall, the Kadoorie Mansion
Old Shanghai was a city full of exquisite mansions, yet even so, Elly Kadoorie’s Marble Hall was considered the most beautiful of all.
October Events
Sassoons, Kadoories, taipans, celebrities, postwar, civil war, the edge of the Badlands, the heart of the French Concession, and a five-star billionaire ... all in October!
The Comprador, the Writer, and the Artist
One family, one sprawling compound, and an almost unchanged lifestyle from 1930-2007.
Remembering Tess, the Pioneer of Old Shanghai Studies
Remembering Tess on what would have been her 95th birthday
Shanghai’s Hidden Ming Temple
In a narrow lane off Nanjing Road stands a small, shabby box of a building.