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Shanghai and the surreal: Urban renewal as an inception | Intellect

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This alarming (or rather, alarmist) article was published in Tianjin’s anti-Communist newspaper Resurrection of Asia (Vozrozhdenie Azii):



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Just came across this Taiwan-based mapping project focused on China that includes some beautifully scanned paper maps. Among the valuable rarities there are the 1855 Ground Plan of Shanghai and the 1947 Commercial Atlas (上海行號路圖錄) in color. The latter appears to have been actually shredded into pieces with scissors and then superimposed with the ( Read more... )

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