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 BundFor 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 > Jade Buddha TempleThe Jade Buddha Temple (Yufo Si) was built during the troubled reign of the Qing Emperor Guangxu (1875-1908) and burned down after having been occupied during the 1911 revolution. The temple takes its name from the original two white jade B... [Read more]
Shanghai Travel > Longhua TempleThe 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 > Cite BourgogneCit 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 > Oriental Pearl TV TowerRising above the Huangpu River and Pudong skyline like something out of an old science fiction flick, the Oriental Pearl Tower holds a special place in Shanghai's recent history. Before the early 1990s, the east bank of the Huangpu was a lo... [Read more]
Shanghai Travel > Yuyuan (Yu Garden)Yuyuan (Yu Gardens) is a classical oasisalbeit a generally crowded onein Shanghai's relentlessly modernizing cityscape. The gardens, completed in 1577 by the aristocratic Ming Dynasty Pan family, retain their original grace and elegance eve... [Read more]
Shanghai Travel > Shanghai Propaganda Poster CenterTucked 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 BourgogneCit 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 GodThe 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 BundFor 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]
