This Chinese New Year, Historic Shanghai is conducting a series of walks in three neighborhoods in the oldest parts of Shanghai that are in the process of being redeveloped out of existence.

Is this Laoximen’s final Spring Festival? Two years since the final push to move all the families out we’ll explore one of the last swathes of pre-Concession Shanghai. With many residents gone now, Laoximen is a different world, yet one that is surprisingly alive, and one whose buildings and stories remain. We don’t know how much longer this will be the case, so come for a last look at the atmospheric winding lanes and alleys, the intricate carvings, the architectural surprises, the blending of east and west, the richly layered histories, before it all disappears.

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