QQ published this fantastic look at how Shanghai changed in the almost 125 years from 1890 – when the city was very much a treaty port, dominated by foreign powers – to 1990, when Jiang Zemin became president of the People's Republic of China and initiated the policies which led to the financial and cultural behemoth that is modern day Shanghai.
A French officer and his wife stand at Shanghai Wusong Port in 1895
US ships patrol the Huangpu river
An early-20th century factory
The first foreign banks opened in Shanghai in 1847, by 1930 the Bund (pictured) was the centre of finance in the city
Street advertisements show the melding of eastern and western cultures, 1948
Residents of Shanghai flee the Japanese invasion of the city in 1937
Shanghai's Nanjing Road shopping street, pictured in 1975
Shanghai during the Cultural Revolution, 1978
The Bund, 1979
As Reform and Opening took hold, Shenzhen began to challenge Shanghai as the nation's commercial centre
People rush to buy shares in 1993 after Shanghai liberalised its financial policies
Three men stand on the Bund in 1993 as the Pudong skyline begins to emerge behind them
Nanjing Road in 1980 (left) and 1990 (right)
Yangshan Port, 2007
Shanghai's Free Trade Zone opened to much excitement in 2013
(h/t: Steve George)
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