Xintiandi and the French Concession Photo 3

Xintiandi and the French Concession

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August 26th 2008
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 Shan ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more