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[Celebrity]Chen Yun: Chen Yun 陈云陳雲 Chen Yun (simplified Chinese: 陈云; traditional Chinese: 陳雲; pinyin: Chén Yún) (June 13, 1905 – April 10, 1995) was one...; By:Published:2009-11-18 18:05:06　Clicks:5　 Comment:0View...

[Development]New-Style Shikumen Houses: In the early 20th century, some changes were made to Shanghai longtangs with shikumen houses. Longtangs were built on a bigger scale than before, with differences in plane patterns, structures, layout and decoration. Each house was smaller i...; By:Published:2008-11-21 10:43:14　Clicks:131　 Comment:0View...

[Development]Old-Style Shikumen Houses: When simple plank houses became obsolete, traditional Chinese style wood-structure buildings in straight and regular lines with brick bearing walls appeared as new style buildings in Shanghai concessions. This type of house is more like a tra...; By:Published:2008-11-21 10:37:07　Clicks:333　 Comment:0View...

[Development]Garden Longtangs: In the late 1930s, new-style longtangs enjoyed further development, giving rise to another type of longtang with garden-style houses of higher standards. These houses are semidetached, with attention paid to environment greening. The interio...; By:Published:2008-11-21 10:36:04　Clicks:140　 Comment:0View...

[Development]New-Style Longtangs: While longtangs with new-style shikumen houses were mushrooming, a new style of longtang style evolved from them. In the new-style longtangs, the building style of shikumen houses phased out. The previously enclosed courtyard was transformed...; By:Published:2008-11-21 10:34:31　Clicks:61　 Comment:1View...

[Development]The Development of Longtangs (Alley) in Shanghai: A city is like a living body. If viewed from the sky, the crisscross roads are like arteries dividing the city into a number of small zones, with small alleys zigzagging through building blocks. The alleys dotting the whole city are like blo...; By:Published:2008-11-21 10:31:15　Clicks:148　 Comment:0View...

[Celebrity]Ruan Lingyu (阮玲玉): Ruan Lingyu (Chinese: 阮玲玉; pinyin: Ruǎn Língyù; April 26, 1910 – March 8, 1935), born as Ruan Fenggen (阮凤根), was a Chinese silent film actress. She was one of the most prominent Chinese film stars of the 1930s, whose early and t...; By:Published:2008-10-31 10:03:46　Clicks:122　 Comment:0View...

[Celebrity]Rong Yiren (荣毅仁): Rong Yiren (simplified Chinese: 荣毅仁; traditional Chinese: 榮毅仁; pinyin: Róng Yìrén) (born 1916 in Wuxi, Jiangsu, died on October 26, 2005 in Beijing) was the Vice-President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 1998 and...; By:Published:2008-10-31 10:00:48　Clicks:100　 Comment:0View...