Aunties chattering rapidly in Shanghainese, a man selling fish on a bright blue tarp, another vendor selling live pigeons. Can VR save this? The shikumen (石库门) neighborhood where Lewei Huang grew up ...

For the past 50 years, Chen Shiguo, a 71-year-old Beijing native, has lived close to the distinctive Tai'an Li compound, which houses six two-story shikumen houses in the city's Xicheng district.

Between Shanghai’s crowded meat markets, bundles of wires, vivid neon lights, and dense smogs, lie the historic ‘Shikumen’ lane houses. Built between the end of the 19th century and World War II, ...

SHANGHAI — This city’s old-fashioned lane houses, or shikumen, haven’t had much chance against the rise of shiny apartment towers in contemporary Shanghai. Even the northeastern district of Hongkou, a ...

Work will begin this year to renovate an extensive area of shikumen houses in downtown Shanghai to return them to the way they looked 70 years ago, a senior official said yesterday. So far, most of ...

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