The Bund, Shanghai (上海), after a renovation project

The Bund, Shanghai (上海), after a renovation project

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: BL-s076. Photograph by Canadian Pacific Railway, taken not long after a construction project in 1920-21 to renovate the Bund. This is a mechanically printed image, probably cut out from a magazine or a picture book - and then mounted on card. A translation of the captioning on the mount: ‘CHINA. Shanghai. Note the Europeanisation of the city’.

Caption in album or on mount

[LA] CHINE Chang-Haï. Remarquer l’européanisation de la ville.

Location

Shanghai

Estimated Date

1922-1923

Material

Book

Media

Black and white photograph

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