Modern Glamour of Old shanghai
1 min readOld shanghai was the most internationalized metropolis in the modern history of China. All about Shanghai, an English book published in Shanghai in 1935, thus introduced the city to Westerners: Shanghai was the sixth largest city in the world, the Paris of the East, and perhaps the most cosmopolitan city on Eart.
In the minds of the Chinese people at the time, shanghai was a”modern city a perceptual acknowledgment of the metropolitan culture of old Shanghai Modernity”is an integral part of the city, an open, fashionable and dynamic place full of the charm of the time.