The Great World is an amusement arcade and entertainment complex located in Shanghai, China. Built in 1917 on the corner of Avenue Edward VII and Yu Ya Ching Road, it was the first and for a long time the most influential indoor amusement arcade in Shanghai, so much so that it spawned imitations all over China. It had gained a reputation as the “No. 1 Entertainment Venue in the Far East.”
The Great World in its heyday in the 1930s.
In 2014.
Yan'an Road is a road in Shanghai, a major east–west thoroughfare through the centre of the city. The modern Yan'an Road is in three sections, reflecting three connected streets which existed pre-1945: Avenue Edward VII, Avenue Foch, and the Great Western Road. The streets were joined together under a common name by the Republic of China government in 1945, then renamed in the early 1950s after the Chinese Communist Party took over Shanghai. The road is named after Yan'an, the Communist base during the Chinese Civil War.
Avenue Edward VII before World War II.
Forest of skyscrapers: aerial view west along Yan'an Road East (elevated expressway at centre) in the 2000s.
Aerial view of a section of Yan'an Road Central. Jing'an Temple is visible in the upper left.
eBRT running under the Yan'an Elevated Road