Former Shanghai Slaughterhouse

Shanghai'd and Disneyd

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July 6th 2016
Finishing off my fourth stay in Shanghai. It’s a big enough city that a return visit always provides for plenty new to discover and, with the city constantly changing, to rediscover. One place I tried to visit last year, but was closed for a rework, was the Jewish Refugee Museum. Reopened now, the museum is housed in a synagogue originally constructed during one of the first waves of Jewish imm ... 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