Shanghai is a city that has quite a bit of history with Westerners. It was a major trading port, and in the early 1900s there was a sizeable population of them, including Brits, Americans, Germans, French and White Russians who fled the Bolsheviks during the Russian revolution. As you've seen in a few of my entries over the last week, you can really see evidence of the days of pre-Communist Shanghai with all the colonial, and even some deco, architecture around the city. One area where there was a large concentration of Westerners was the "French Concession", which is better known to local Chinese as an area spanning over parts of the Jing'an and Lu wan districts of the city. I won't bore you with what is quickly becoming a shopping and restaurant blog rather than
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