Old Shanghai cross street

Author: Zheng Zu'an
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: This book selects eight representative types of people and objects from the streets and alleys of old Shanghai, including pedestrians, vendors, laborers, beggars, refugees, signs, shops, and traffic flows. With nearly four hundred precious historical photographs, it directly and faithfully presents the appearance of the city and the social atmosphere. Through these old photographs, it aims to showcase a real Shanghai: on one hand, infinite prosperity and splendor; on the other hand, extreme hardship and suffering; on one hand, how diverse and colorful it was; on the other hand, how bizarre and strange! With these focused historical lenses, readers may gain a basic understanding and quick insight into the more than one hundred years of journey that Shanghai has gone through.