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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

This week is *all about* Wallis Simpson in China, or more specifically, HER LOTUS YEAR, Paul French’s latest book. Last weekend, we did a walk through the places & traces of Wallis in Shanghai. Here we are at the Palace Hotel, where Wallis stayed. Glitz & glam! 1/ @chinarhyming.bsky.social

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

100 years ago today, on March 12 1925, Sun Yat-sen drew his last breath. The untimely death of the father of the nation ushered in a wave of commemorations, including statues in his likeness, like this almost forgotten one. Here’s the story of that statue: www.historic-shanghai.com/shanghais-su...

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Facadism on the Suzhou Creek - retaining the facades so the view of historic warehouses is preserved. Umm…that’s not how it works, peeps! #shanghai

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Up on a Shanghai lane house rooftop with two residents, both born here, one the grandnephew of the original owner. In two months they’ll have to move, they say. 1/

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Shanghai snapshot: The streets of the old Jewish Ghetto that surround the excellent Jewish Refugees Museum and the old Ohel Moishe synagogue: depopulated, empty, silenced. Zhoushan Lu and its lane neighborhood will likely survive, but it what form?

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shanghaiartdeco.bsky.social @shanghaiartdeco.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

There’s not much left of the Cathay Theater interior, but what is left is prime! Karoly Gonda, 1931. #artdeco

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Love in the lanes, this Saturday (Feb 15, 4pm): celebrate Valentine’s with a walk through the romance, and the stories, of the former French Concession…with a little bubbly, of course! 🥂💘

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

First, they tear down the history. Then, they put up murals mourning the communities they just tore down. 1/

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

“Urban renewal” is coming to the area Behind the Bund. We’ve seen this flick before, and it doesn’t end well. Join us, and see these buildings & streets before they’re gutted, gentrified, gone. Saturday Feb 8, 10am / RMB 200 members, 300 nonmembers / to book: jinshuju.net/f/keytg2

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

New Year Greetings, Year of the Snake edition, from the lanes of Shanghai. It’s bittersweet: most are nearly empty, or surrounded by a wasteland of closed neighborhoods. The ones that remain, tho, are proudly festive! But you can’t help wondering: how many more Chinese New Years here? #shanghai

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historicshanghai.bsky.social @historicshanghai.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Uh-oh:,”urban renewal” is coming to that fabulous behind-the-Bund area, with its lane neighborhoods and century-old architecture. We’ve got a walk coming up in the area next month: watch this space, and that one, too! #shanghai

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Alexander Boyd @alexludoboyd.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

In 1931, Zhou Enlai ordered the murder of his aide Gu Shunzhang's wife and eight other family members, including a two-year-old boy, after Gu spilled Party secrets to the KMT. Afterwards, Zhou said: "Let history judge." Well, history has arrived. chinabooksreview.com/2025/01/23/z...

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The Curse of the "Good Premier” | China Books Review

Zhou Enlai, Mao Zedong’s second-in-command, has been lionized as a moderating force who held back Mao’s excesses. But does he deserve that reputation, when he also enabled them?

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Jay Carter @jayjamescarter.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Political change in the air for This Week in China's History. The man who almost changed China.... This Week in China's History: The Resignation of Hu Yaobang www.sinicapodcast.com/p/this-week-...

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This Week in China's History: The Resignation of Hu Yaobang

January 16, 1987

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Paul French @chinarhyming.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

A committee members badge for the old Shanghai Club (home of the famous Long Bar) at #2 Bund, Shanghai….

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