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From the restored Shikumen compound of Zhang Yuan along tree-shaded Yuyuan Road to the 1920s country-club pool of Columbia Circle.

No tourist buses, no filler. How to weave the Bund, the plane-tree lanes of the Wutong Quarter, soup dumplings, art corridors, and a symphony-and-vinyl night into seventy-two effortless hours.

Shanghai holds one of the world’s greatest concentrations of 1920s and 1930s Art Deco architecture. Here is the insider protocol on how to legally walk past the brass doors.

Century-old Shikumen brickwork meets botanical Eastern perfumery and Shanghai’s sharpest fashion houses. Eligible for ¥200+ instant tax refund.

Piero Lissoni’s masterwork of Milanese restraint and Shanghainese craft, steps from Zhang Yuan.