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The best way to get around Shanghai is the metro. Immune to traffic (though crowding is inevitable), the metro is a fast and cheap way to travel within the city, and its extensive reach will put you ...

Parts of Shanghai’s Lao Cheng, by its Mandarin name — the original port city established in the 1290s — are demolished every passing month, but large swaths of the old neighborhoods remain. Little ...

Japan took control of central Shanghai’s northernmost Hongkou area in 1932 after the first battle of Shanghai, and its disinterest in Chinese domestic politics made it a refuge for leftist writers and ...