Exploring Old City in Shanghai? Here's a neighborhood guide to find lilong houses, a city-wall watchtower and chou doufu (stinky tofu).

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 ...

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, April 07, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Shanghai has launched a new video series titled "Renewing Shanghai," which documents the city's urban renewal projects. A Media Snippet accompanying ...

One of the star attractions at Legoland Shanghai, which officially opens on July 5, is likely to be a mini replica of the ...

The Old City, located in the southeast of Shanghai and covering an area of 200 hectares, is the original settled area of Shanghai city. It was the economic, political and cultural center of the ...

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.

Shanghai straddles the past and the future, a dizzying prism of many histories and cultures. The poet Sally Wen Mao shares books that illuminate this cosmopolitan city.

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 ...

Laoximen — whose name means “Old West Gate” in Chinese — is one of the last vestiges of Shanghai’s precolonial past. A stretch of city wall said to date to at least the 16th century once stood here, ...