Urban Explosion: Beijing & Shanghai
Thursday, July 9, 2020 20:00 to 22:00 Online via Zoom
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Beijing Postcards is a history-focused company in Beijing. We conduct archival research and oral history projects in order to create original walks, talks, events and historical souvenirs.
Beijing Postcards uses the cityscape of Beijing to explore Chinese thought and ideas. All of our events are themed and we aim to make them challenging, inspiring and fun. Our goal is to take you off the beaten path, in every sense, and to use our research to help you view and engage with Beijing in new ways.
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Shanghai and Beijing are arguably the most important cities in China, but the histories of these two enormous urban centres are very different. One was for hundreds of years the capital of Imperial China; the other only became a metropol as a consequence of the development that led to the collapse of the empire.
Using two 1930s maps, we will discover leads and patterns that will help us to understand what the cities were like in the early Republican period and how they became what they are today. We will find their differences, but also see how they have significantly influenced each other. We will use the maps to answer questions like: When did Shanghai get its first public park? And when did Beijing? When were the city walls of the cities torn down? What city had the highest building in 1932? We will also touch upon topics including the Japanese occupation, horse racing, rickshaws, prostitution and Beijing opera as we seek to uncover the two cities’ road to modernity.
The discussion will be led by Patrick Cranley from Historic Shanghai, and Lars Ulrik Thom from Beijing Postcards.
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Historic Shanghai
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Beijing Postcards is a history-focused company in Beijing. We conduct archival research and oral history projects in order to create original walks, talks, events and historical souvenirs.
Beijing Postcards uses the cityscape of Beijing to explore Chinese thought and ideas. All of our events are themed and we aim to make them challenging, inspiring and fun. Our goal is to take you off the beaten path, in every sense, and to use our research to help you view and engage with Beijing in new ways.
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