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Thanks for giving us this quick tour, and it is quite remarkable indeed.

I stumbled on your videos. although very interesting, you make lots of errors in describing the style of the buildings and their features. Many are not really Beaux Arts, but more like Edwardian Neo-Baroque. Also, for another obvious example, the columns on the Shanghai Club are not Corinthian, but Ionic style. If you're going to interpret, try to be more accurate, otherwise don't waste your time and find another amateur occupation to pursue. Fun fact, one of the buildings' Doric columns have the exact proportions of the columns on the Parthenon in Athens, but I'm not going to tell you which one. 😛

What is artificial stone? Clearly not concrete.

Loved this, thank you- I was first introduced to the Bund with the movie Empire of the sun. Been fascinated ever since.

Is there a taxi there going to Shanghai Film Park?

Thanks for uploading great video 👍

Very useful resource, charmingly presented. Subscribed. EDIT: I see no new videos in a year. I hope you are OK.

April 17th of what year?

Sir, in the future, when you give the date would you please include the year?

I hope you are well, and I would love to see more of your video's

It is very sad that you didn't mention Russo-Chinese Bank

Great history

Great videos

👍👍👍

My favourite 👍

I will never forget the Bund and the Peace Hotel

I can't tell where you are from by your accent but thank your for uploading this video. Born and raise in Shanghai and I haven't been back to home for 2 yrs.

nice

Thank you for sharing all the things about Shanghai. 🙏

a great, humane piece (but keen to hear about the food...)

The tale of the writer and the asthma attack and the closed doors of the hospitals makes me think of the writings of Lu Xun maybe some 100 years ago

when you say 'dense', what does that mean in practice? How many people to an apartment?

What I keep wondering is why the elderly in Shanghai / China are not (and were not, way back) fully vaccinated

Very useful, I wish I had a drone to see what you saw. Stay safe and hope to see you soon!

Thankyou for the update. I am Planning to travel to Shanghai in August, we’ll let’s say I was planning to. It’s now wait and see if I can still get in.

This process inevitably raises the interesting and difficult question that is: what level of risk should we (or in this case, the government) accept before this type of virus is essentially let loose? Of course, it's not a simple question, because it's answer is contingent on the state of public health care, the cultural expectations about the extent to which government should take care of you, the personal level of acceptable risk, the role of the vocal minority (especially with social media as their outlet), and so on. In fact, it's such a complicated and difficult question that I’m not surprised that this episode chose not to cover it.

Friends were asking me earlier today what news there was from Shanghai, given the brief news reports, so I have just shared this link with them. The scenes of empty streets remind me of London in the spring of 2020. But then at least I could cycle 3 minutes to Sainsbury's and join the masked queue to enter and search for food and then push my bike home and get back in time to remember that I had forgotten to buy coffee filters. Anyway, just to say, these short films are fascinating.

Fascinating graphs! Good to get some analysis - even news, full stop - of what's happening on the ground in Shanghai. The pursuit of zero Covid policy is completely hopeless now.

Amazing drone footage.

Fantastic, Thankyou.

Again, Thankyou. Do you live in Shanghai?

I really enjoyed your video. I am myself fascinated by these buildings. And did what you did, walked along the Bund, but started from the opposite end. I live how outside the entrance of each building there is a brass plaque with the history of the building. The entire history of Shanghai just fascinates me. Thank you again for a great video.

Lovely and gentle

Walked passing those many times but never knew their fascinating history! Thanks 👍

A little more about Portland cement used in the building of the 1933 abattoir: it was developed and patented by Joseph Aspdin in 1824 and so named because of its resemblance to the famous Portland building stone. And that’s where the connection ends. It was never made in Portland! The cement was improved over the course of the 19th Century, initially by Joseph’s son, William Aspdin, and became the gold standard for high-quality building cement. (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_cement#Manufacturing, accessed 10 December, 2021). Our thanks to Ted Nield.

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0:32 I didn’t expect it to be so quiet :o

That was a great video, very informative! Can't wait to watch more of your channels content to learn even more about Shanghai!

Thank you for sharing this! Very informative

Great video, very interesting and informative. Can't wait to see more!!!

Makes me wanna visit Shanghai now!

Great first video! Cant wait to explore more of Shanghai with this channel. Subbed!

I love it! I've been sitting on the edge of the water on the west coast of Scotland for more than a year now, living out the pandemic, and there have been times when I longed to go to a fabulous, breathtaking city on the other side of the world--and here it is, brought to my door. I went many, many years ago to Shanghai, briefly. This is just fascinating. The narrator has got the pitch about right, what a relief. I can relax, go with the flow, see where it takes me. Just wish I was there.