Shanghai has a blend of architectural styles, due to parts of the city being occupied by the French, British, and Americans during the 19th and early 20th century. Buildings blending Western and ...

The building of the Summer Palace's Foreign Affairs Office combines Chinese and Western architectural features. The building ...

Shanghai's new home for Hermès occupies an early 20th-century, double-fronted, former French administration building on the corner of Huaihai Road and Songshan Road. Built out of terracotta brick and ...

Shanghai resident ... and China in the past century, Chu told the Global Times. China's greatest reformers and educators in the late 19th century and early 20th century, including Sun Yat-sen ...

The book, a history of the experience of poverty in early 20th-century China, explores the birth of the workhouse and the criminalization of poverty in Beijing and Shanghai. Anti-vagrancy laws meant ...