Shanghai Old Town: Topography of a Phantom City.

Anyone who has an interest in old Shanghai will have undoubtedly come across Katya Knyazeva’s work and writings on the Old Town. She’s an old school researcher who digs incredibly deeply into what has been fast disappearing. So it’s good news that the fruits of that research are now appearing in book form – Shanghai Old Town: Topography of a Phantom City. I think this is the first of two volumes (of rather lavishly produced work); this one focusing on the old docks area. You can see a bunch of the lovely pages here. Surely a must for anyone’s Old Shanghai shelf….

Now I’m not sure where exactly you can buy this book – certainly on Taobao and at Garden Books in Shanghai