Parts of Shanghai’s Lao Cheng, by its Mandarin name — the original port city established in the 1290s — are demolished every passing month, but large swaths of the old neighborhoods remain.

Shanghai Old City undergoes transformation Updated: 2014-09-16 07:07 (chinadaily.com.cn) Comments. People walk on a street in the Old City of Shanghai, Sept 14, 2014. [Photo/IC] ...

And they have arrived just in the nick of time; as in Beijing, where massive swaths of the old city were torn down in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games, municipal planners in Shanghai have ...

We couldn’t decide what impressed us most about Shanghai when my wife and I first visited in 2001. Was it the obvious energy of the city? Or was it the contrast between old and new? Our tour ...

Shanghai city guide: Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in China’s gleaming metropolis. From old school to ultra modern, soups to skyscrapers, Chris Beanland finds that visitors will never be ...

Shanghai's famous waterfront, the Bund, faces the Huangpu River. The neoclassical-style buildings are a legacy of Shanghai's colonial past, when this part of the city was the International Settlement.

The Old City of Shanghai has become a photo-taking magnet after an artist transformed one of its streets into a feline thoroughfare festooned with cat murals. Shanghai-born artist and cartoonist ...

Shanghai is a city of transformations and revolutions. Between the leafy corners of the French Concession, the lit eaves of the Old City and Yu Garden, the alleys and residential blocks of ...

There's an old saying: China will get old before it gets rich. Shanghai is turning that adage on its head: The city is both rich and old. One-fourth of Shanghai's residents were at least 60 years ...