Nanjing Road is the main shopping street of Shanghai, China, one of the world’s busiest shopping streets.[citation needed] In a broad sense, Nanjing Road includes East-Nanjing Road and West-Nanjing Road, while in narrow sense, it only refers to the Nanjing Road before 1945 (today’s East-Nanjing Road), which is pedestrianized. Prior to 1949, the road’s English [...]
Xintiandi is a car-free shopping, eating and entertainment area of Shanghai, China. It is composed of an area of restored traditional shikumen (”stone gate”) houses on narrow alleys, a modern shopping mall with a cinema complex, and some ad joining houses which now serve as book stores, cafes and restaurants. Most of the cafes and [...]
The Jade Buddha Temple (Jade Buddha Chan Temple) is a Buddhist temple in Shanghai, China. As with most modern Chinese Buddhist temples, the current temple draws from both the Pure Land and Chan traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. It was founded in 1882 with two jade Buddha statues imported to Shanghai from Burma by sea. These [...]
