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Permit granted to demolish Shanghai Restaurant – in Winnipeg

Posted: July 28th, 2012 | No Comments »

This was not the story I was expecting when it dropped in = we’re used to old restaurant buildings in Shanghai being destroyed but here’s a 140 year old downtown Winnipeg building being demolished. It’s been home to the Shanghai restaurant apparently since the 1940s. Seems to be a bit of a fight about it. Anyway, seemed just about interesting enough to note!

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As someone who divides his time pretty evenly writing about China now and China back then this seemed like a place to throw all the interesting bits that fall through the cracks somehow and never get used anywhere else. It's basically the stuff that doesn't get used in my writing about modern China or in the books I do about old China — i.e. probably of little interest to anyone but me and therefore ideally suited to an obscure blog up a dark cul-de-sac of the Internet - Paul French

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Permit granted to demolish Shanghai Restaurant – in Winnipeg

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