Today, Old Shanghai is walled in by the apartment and office towers slowly and inevitably approaching from all sides.
When Emma Peng, a 20-year-old Shanghai native studying at New York University, purchased a one-bedroom apartment in Manhattan's 400 Fifth Ave.
The red brick and stone, the smoke and soot, and the sounds and smells of Old Shanghai provide sharp relief to the shiny new Pudong financial centre across the river.
She likes to attempt sartorial derring-dos, adding a touch of old world Shanghai to an off the moment Louis Vuitton ensemble or rocking the 80s look with a body con Versace dress.
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To get there, you have to pass a row of splendid shikumen (traditional stone-gate houses) , and the old-Shanghai textures continue once inside, with red-brick interior walls and reproduced stone gateways above doorways to rooms which are simple, but smart.
The first three patients to be identified are an 87-year-old man and a 27-year-old man from Shanghai, and a 35-year-old housewife from Anhui.
The trio of DJs--Bobby, Benny and Nicole--are all 20-year-old children of Shanghai.
The two companies, old-style Shanghai Hutchison and high-tech Hutchison MediPharma, have little in common, yet they share the same parent, Hutchison China MediTech, or Chi-Med.
Turning to the H7N9 bird flu virus, the death toll rose to seven on Monday with the death of a 64-year-old man in Shanghai, Beijing Times reports.
Hong Kong's South China Morning Post says there is still hope in battling the deadly bird flu as a 67-year-old man in Hangzhou and a four-year-old boy in Shanghai are both recovering from the virus.
Xu usually works long hours testing and fine-tuning motors in his lab at an old industrial complex in Shanghai.
Authorities said Thursday the virus also killed a 48-year-old man who transported poultry for a living and a 52-year-old woman, both in Shanghai.
"My feeling is that Singapore isn't foreigner-friendly anymore, " said Alan Chen, 37 years old, who is from Shanghai and moved to Singapore five years ago to work in the logistics industry.
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China suspended flights into and out of Mexico after a 25-year-old Mexican man who arrived in Shanghai from Mexico City on April 30 became China's first confirmed case of swine flu.
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"We have to rescue this history, " insists Xu Buzeng, 70-year-old doyen of Jewish scholars in Shanghai, who realized a lifelong dream last fall when he visited Israel on a fellowship to Hebrew University.
And little wonder, since I was staying at the old Jewish Music Club, now the Shanghai Music Conservatory.
One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.
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The church in Shanghai is barely two years old but already has two offspring, one for workers in a multinational company, the other for migrant labourers.
China suspended all flights into and out of Mexico after a 25-year-old Mexican man who arrived Thursday in Shanghai from Mexico City became the Asian country's first confirmed case of the virus.
The 45-year-old Maryland native recently opened Jacobs flagships in Shanghai and Seoul, and is currently finessing the in-store branding of a new Marc Jacobs beauty line that will debut this summer.
Zhang Jiang, a slim 21-year-old, previously assembled laptop computers at another company in Shanghai.
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Yang Fan, a 26-year-old Internet whiz, two years ago launched one of Shanghai's first new-media web-design companies, Shengquan Design.
Last year, Shanghai opened its first Jewish museum, inside the old Ohel Moishe temple.
Arriving in Shanghai in 1911 as a 28-year-old rookie reporter, Crow had a lust for adventure.
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In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.
Back in town, we take you for a stroll along Shanghai's Bund ( Road Trip), where everything old is new (and so is what's actually new, for that matter...).
Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.
The 22-year-old, who pulled out of the end-of-year Masters Cup in Shanghai, has been struggling with tendonitis in his right knee.
All this history wells up in Shanghai, where a determined researcher can still find Stars of David decorating old tenements in the French quarter.
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