Shanghai’s Hengshan-Fuxing (“Hengfu”) Roads Historic Protection Zone, a sprawling series of neighborhoods from the middle of the 19th and 20th centuries, is the city’s largest and most diverse ...

We remember Tess Johnston, U.S. diplomat-turned-chronicler of old Shanghai's colonial architecture, who died at the age of 93. Tess Johnston arrived in Shanghai as an American foreign service officer ...

Tess Johnston arrived in Shanghai as an American foreign service officer in 1981. She left 35 years later as an author and expert on the city's vanishing colonial architecture. Johnston died earlier ...