Longtang
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A longtang is a lane in Shanghai and, by extension, a community centred on a lane or several interconnected lanes. It is sometimes called lilong ; the latter name incorporates the -li suffix often use
Street entrance to a longtang (Xinxin Li) in Shanghai, just before demolition.
A local policeman in Shanghai conducting a feedback meeting with residents of a lilong in 1964.
A longtang (弄堂) between shikumen (石库门) townhouses in Shanghai
Clements Apartments on Rue Lafayette: a different type of longdang lined with slightly later, more westernized apartment buildings
Small Swords Society
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Small Swords Society or Small Sword Society was a political activist organisation in Shanghai, China, and neighbouring areas amid the Taiping Rebellion, between about 1840 and 1855. Members of the soc
Headquarters of the Small Swords Society in Shanghai