Shanghai Travel > Shanghai Propaganda Poster Center

Tucked away in the basement level of a nondescript apartment building, the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Museum is a remarkable private museum dedicated to documenting the collective spirit of Chinese communism as depicted on thousands upon th...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > People's Square (Shanghai)

People's Square, like much of today's Shanghai, is a showcase. Nowhere is this more apparent than at the Shanghai Urban Planning Museum , where optimistic projections of boundlessyet carefully managed and controlledgrowth take the form of a...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > Cite Bourgogne

Cit Bourgogne ( Bugaoli to the locals) is a unique example of the shikumen style lane house dwelling constructed across the city during its early-twentieth-century heyday. Located in the former French Concession, one can stroll through the...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > Temple of the City God

The Taoist Temple of the City God (Laochenghuangmiao), tucked away within the Old City alongside the Yu Gardens and Yuyuan Bazaar , is the home of the local deities (there are actually three, all derived from actual historical personages) r...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > The Bund

For many, the Bund ( Waitan to the locals) is the face of Shanghai. Even as the city transforms itself, growing upwards and outwards at a tremendous rate, the Bund's Art Deco and Neoclassical facades appear much as they did during Shanghai'...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > Jin Mao Tower

Though no longer China's tallest building, having recently been eclipsed by the neighboring World Financial Center , the Jin Mao Tower ( Jin Mao Dasha ) remains Shanghai's most elegant and distinctive skyscraper. It also still proudly house...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > Longhua Temple

The sight of the Buddhist Longhua Temple pagoda rising into the sky against the backdrop of Shanghai's 21st Century high-rise skyline can be both jarring and sublime. As the city's largest remaining pagoda, the 40 meter (130 foot) tower sta...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > Century Park

Century park is the largest echo-city park with natural characteristics. It covers an area of 140.3 hectares and is designed by British LUC Company, which embodies the combination of eastern and western cultures, human and nature and with a...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > Yuyuan Garden

Yuyuan Garden is a traditional Chinese park complete with beautiful pavilions, miniature lakes, bridges and rock formations. This small park is located in the heart of Shanghai's old Chinese quarter and links to Yuyuan Market. Built in 1559...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > Oriental Pearl TV Tower

The 468 meters high tower, which is the highest in Asia and the third highest in the world, was put into construction on July 30th, 1991 and completed on October 1st, 1994. It faces the Bund across the Huangpu River. With eleven steel spher...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > City God Temple

Located next to the Yuyuan Garden and also known today as the Yu Garden Market, the City God Temple ( Chenghuang Temple) was built in the fifteenth century during the Ming Dynasty. Originally a temple built to honor the Han statesman Huo Gu...  [Read more]

Shanghai Travel > French concession region

The French Concession is the area of shanghai once designated for the French in 1849 and retook by China in 1943, with a history of nearly one hundred years. Today, it has become a famous tourist region in Shanghai and the tree-lined avenue...  [Read more]