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Old Shanghai: The buildings, the people, the stories.

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  • Subscriber-only posts, all articles, and archive
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  • Our undying gratitude for supporting the work we do to tell Shanghai's story!

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About Tina Kanagaratnam

Shanghai history writer, researcher, reader; Historic Shanghai cofounder. In Shanghai since 1997. All about Shanghai, mostly past but present too.

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