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Documenting China After Dark

Photographer Sokol documents China’s changing nightlife, from packed dance floors to disappearing...

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Shanghai Then and Now: One Photographer’s Long-Term Record of a Disappearing City

In 2019, photographer ZWEI returned to Shanghai after finishing his studies abroad. Around the...

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Shanghai’s Last Newspaper Stand Is Here to Stay

Shanghai's last newspaper stand, which was supposed to close by the end of 2025, has reopened....

What Remains: A History of Six Lanes in Shanghai

From a time before high-rises.

[Shanghai Famous]: City Chronicler Katya Knyazeva

One of the most avid chroniclers of Old Shanghai, Katya spent ten years ducking down alleys,...

Meeting Tao Qingjian, The Last Woksmith

Tracing the last of Shanghai's wok specialist blacksmiths. SmartShanghai meets Tao Qingjian, a...

R.I.P. The Wokmakers - Cen Family Hammers Out Their Last Wok

After more than seven decades, the corner of Baotong and Baoshan roads in Zhabei district was...