Places
Shanghai Underground
At eight o’clock on a weekday morning, the largest machine in the world is running beneath Shanghai.
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Places
The Skyline Across the River
Every evening on the Bund, thousands of people turn their backs on the most famous mile of architecture in Asia and photograph the other side. What they are photographing did not exist when some of them were born.
Places
The Bund
There is a bend in the Huangpu River, a mile and a half of waterfront on the western bank, where the whole story of modern Shanghai is written in stone. Stand there at dusk and you can read it in both directions.
Culture
The Shanghai That Never Was
It opens with a gong, a dragon, and a blonde in a red-sequined dress singing Cole Porter in Mandarin.
Places
The Greatest City on Earth
In the middle of the eighth century, if you could have seen the earth from the moon on a clear night, one city would have burned brighter than any other.
History
Where the Visas Led
The last image of Chiune Sugihara is the one history has chosen to keep: a Japanese consul leaning out of the window of a moving train at Kaunas station in the late summer of 1940, still signing, still stamping, handing papers down into a forest of outstretched arms until the platform ran out from under him.
History
Visas for Life
In the last days of August 1940, at the railway station of Kaunas, Lithuania, a crowd of Jewish refugees stood on the platform beside the departing train, and the Japanese consul, leaning from the window of his compartment, went on writing visas.
People
The Consul Who Kept Stamping
In the summer of 1938, a seventeen-year-old Jewish boy named Eric Goldstaub set out to find his family a way out of Vienna.
History
The Port of Last Resort
In July 1938, at the French resort of Evian, the delegates of thirty-two nations met to discuss the Jewish refugees of Germany and Austria, and almost every one of them, expressing the deepest sympathy, explained why his own country could take no more.
People
The Refugee Who Built Shanghai
In the autumn of 1918, a twenty-five-year-old prisoner of war jumped from a moving train somewhere in Siberia and walked into the chaos of the Russian civil war with nothing but his wits and his drawing skills.
Culture
When Shanghai Sang
In 1951, an American singer named Frankie Laine took a song to number three on the Billboard charts, a breezy love tune with an insinuating rhythm and an English lyric about a flower.
Culture
The Hollywood of the East
On the night of 7 March 1935, Shanghai’s most beloved actress went home from a farewell dinner with her colleagues, wrote two letters, took an overdose of sleeping pills, and died the following afternoon, on International Women’s Day, at the age of twenty-four.
