Category: Places & People
Travel the world through vintage photos of places and people that defined an era. From city streets to rural landscapes — every image tells a human story.
See how culture, architecture, and everyday life looked decades ago, captured in timeless frames.
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#4 Apart from feelings of unfairness brought by the foreign concessions, Shanghai locals also accepted the dividends brought by the foreign concessions. It became China’s fastest developing city at the beginning of the 20th century, escaping the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and Boxers catastrophes, the people here also being the very first to experience a true modern city, experience the media, advertisements, films, high-level education, etc. Photo is of Shanghai in the early 20th century, near the Hongkou market, where everyday were many local fishermen, peasant farmers, and butchers came to sell their goods.
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