Highways from Shanghai to Canton
Posted: August 3rd, 2015 | 4 Comments »I can’t remember how many times over the last couple of decades I’ve read that more highways will solve China’s connedctivity and logistics problems – highway mileage completed stats have long been an erroneous indicator. But it seems it’s nothing new – here’s reporting on new highways from 1935 concerning roads connecting Shanghai and Canton….
The Nationalists were keen to link up its territory with motor roads. I have a fine photo of the south west highway from Chunking running towards Kweiyang, probably first built in 1935 and photographed in colour in 1950.
love to see that photograph?
I try to live as much as possible in 1936,†says the reluctant blogger, who recently finished a kind of A-to-Z guide to the city that uses its old street names and map. The Shanghai he writes about in his blog, China Rhyming, is the libertine city of tycoons and coolies, tea dances and opium dens, of gangland kidnappings and hidden gardens.
Still stuck there – might try early ’37 for a while someday