The Phoenix of the Huangpu: How Shanghai is Redefining Urban Cultural Identity in the 2020s The concrete skeletons of abandoned industrial plants along the Huangpu River have undergone a remarkable metamorphosis. Where rusted cranes once unloaded cargo, now avant-garde art installations draw international crowds. This is Shanghai's West B
The New Bund: How Shanghai is Reinventing Itself as Asia's Cultural Capital in 2025 Shanghai's Cultural Metamorphosis As the morning mist lifts from the Huangpu River, a different kind of skyline emerges along Shanghai's West Bund - not of banking towers but of avant-garde museums and performance spaces. The city that symbolized