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Rue du Consulat (Jinling Road), 1945

Posted: October 14th, 2016 | No Comments »

I’ve blogged repeatedly about the ongoing destruction to the Rue du Consulat (Jinling Road) area of Shanghai’s former French Concession. In my opinion the planned tearing down of much of the street, even if some facades are kept, is especially criminal as it is the last extant colonnaded street in the former French Concession. But Shanghai’s disastrously panned gentrification by bulldozer strategy (courtesy of the alliance of Communists and property developers) respects nothing historic or beautiful.

Here though is a picture I believe to have been taken on the Rue du Consulat around 1945/46 – i.e. the Rue du Consulat survived war and the Japanese but doesn’t look likely to survive the CCP!

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