Images of Old Shanghai

Before this time there was a place called the Paris of the Orient, where Western diplomat wives had tea parties and their husbands went to cabarets; an oval shaped "China Town" within the concession areas where the locals are cordoned out of ex-pats' sights in a slum; and a birthplace of several political movements ushering in a brand new China.

From Top: The old Customs House on the Bund; two of the nine 1920s luxury products posters I purchased (totally can't wait to watch Ang Lee's Lust:Caution!!!); Cat and lady outside dumpling shop; Zhou Enlai's Former Residence and former Chinese Communist Party HQ officially allowed to exist during the KMT era, just down the road from Dr Sun Yet-Sen's former residence - both the revolutions that overthrew the Emperialist Qing Dynasty and the Kuomingtang (KMT) regime in China had significant origins in Shanghai; Street & garden in the old town; Housing in the old town; antique markets at Dong Dan Street