The perimeter of the People’s Square once defined old Shanghai’s racecourse, where the rich rode their steeds and their wives wagered fans and sun bonnets because betting money was too, too vulgar. Read more.
Sir Victor Sassoon and Sassoon HouseSir Victor Sassoon came from money – he was the fourth generation of a Sephardic Jewish family from Baghdad who had begun trading opium in Shanghai in 1845 Read more.
The Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, built in 1920, was a place both prestigious and safe enough to deposit the great fortunes that were made in old Shanghai.
About The Former Shanghai Club The old boys’ club that controlled Shanghai ran it from the leather-and-whiskey soaked confines of the Shanghai Club on the Bund, where membership was restricted Read more.
About the Cercle Sportif FrancaisThe French Club was the most cosmopolitan club in a city that was perhaps the most cosmopolitan in the world. Read more.
Former Du Yu Sheng & Du Villa - 1933 “Who’s Who” called Du Yue Sheng the most influential resident of the French Concession, and there is no doubt that Shanghai’s mafia king was exactly that Read more.
Tycoon Eric Moller was one of the richest men in old Shanghai- with all the trappings that went with it: membership in the Shanghai Race Club and a gorgeous, fantasy mansion in the French Concession Read more.
