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Jinjiang

On September 28, 2011 · In things

The hotel complex where Nixon and Mao signed the Shanghai communique in 1972, the Jinjiang was built in the early 1900′s in the art deco style and renovated beautifully. I spent hours just walking around the room itself, as well as the hotel and ground…

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Wing On

On September 28, 2011 · In people, places

A study of people outside the venerable Wing On department store on Shanghai’s Nanjing East Road – formerly named “Bubbling Well Road” during the British occupation of this quarter of the city.

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Nanking Rd, Shanghai, 1979. Kodachrome 64.

Watching Time

On August 19, 2011 · In people, places

These folks were crowded around a window display of Japanese watches. Just normal watches.

Nanking Rd., Shanghai, 1979.

Scanned from Kodachrome 64 on an Epson V700 using Silverfast.

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Pei Mansion

On July 21, 2011 · In places

I love the internet. Got a $250 room for $55. This mansion, in the middle of the French concession of Shanghai, belonged to I.M. Pei’s father in the 1930′s and was recently converted into a boutique hotel. The only thing that was not completely 1930′s art deco was a modern toilet that did everything except [...]

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Fuxing Park

On July 10, 2011 · In people

Located in the middle of the French Quarter of Shanghai, this park is full of retirees from the generation that knew the opulence, decadence and culture – of the British and French colonial period.

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