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Shanghai - Wangjiamatou Road
A "blast from the past". Narrow Wangjiamatou Road (王家码头路) leads from Xiaonanmen (小南门) to the wharves at Huangpu River - "Matou" (码头) means "wharf, pier, jetty" in Chinese.
The area around Xiaonanmen, a maze of tiny and tinier alleys and "弄 nong", filled with small 1 to 2 storey houses is in parts still in the same state as it was in colonial times - and/or even before that. One of the last remnants of the (in colonial times) so called "Chinese City".
But it's doomed - urban redevelopment calls for demolition of the small old buildings and construction of new, shiny apartment and office towers. View it on a black background
Uploaded on December 23, 2010
Re-posted February 27, 2025.
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.
Shanghai - Wangjiamatou Road
A "blast from the past". Narrow Wangjiamatou Road (王家码头路) leads from Xiaonanmen (小南门) to the wharves at Huangpu River - "Matou" (码头) means "wharf, pier, jetty" in Chinese.
The area around Xiaonanmen, a maze of tiny and tinier alleys and "弄 nong", filled with small 1 to 2 storey houses is in parts still in the same state as it was in colonial times - and/or even before that. One of the last remnants of the (in colonial times) so called "Chinese City".
But it's doomed - urban redevelopment calls for demolition of the small old buildings and construction of new, shiny apartment and office towers. View it on a black background
Uploaded on December 23, 2010
Re-posted February 27, 2025.
© All Rights Reserved - you may not use this image in any form without my prior permission.