And they have arrived just in the nick of time; as in Beijing, where massive swaths of the old city were torn down in preparation for the 2008 Olympic Games, municipal planners in Shanghai have ...

Shanghai city guide: Where to stay, eat, drink and shop in China’s gleaming metropolis From old school to ultra modern, soups to skyscrapers, Chris Beanland finds that visitors will never be ...

The Old City, located in the southeast of Shanghai and covering an area of 200 hectares, is the original settled area of Shanghai city. It was the economic, political and cultural center of the ...

Cody Ellingham is photographing the disappearance of the city's "lane houses" amid Shanghai's rapidly evolving architectural landscape.

Our tour guides -- lifelong friends who were living in Shanghai -- showed us everything from the city’s gleaming new skyscrapers to its centuries-old gardens and tea houses.

Shanghai's famous waterfront, the Bund, faces the Huangpu River. The neoclassical-style buildings are a legacy of Shanghai's colonial past, when this part of the city was the International Settlement.

For Henry Shi, a 30-year-old photographer who ventured out of his community on Tuesday afternoon, the first thing that struck him was the ambient noise of the city.

Shanghai is turning that adage on its head: The city is both rich and old. One-fourth of Shanghai's residents were at least 60 years old last year, according to the state-run Xinhua news agency.

The Old City, located in the southeast of Shanghai and covering an area of 200 hectares, is the original settled area of Shanghai city.