Shanghai Signal House: A Daily China Photo

This week’s photos come from Ken Leaf, an amateur photographer and architect-to-be living in Shanghai.

This is a photo of the old signal house in Shanghai. Originally constructed in 1865, the signal house is a symbol of Shanghai’s vitality in the earlier part of the century. Moved in 1993 and restored in 1998, there is now a museum at the bottom of the tower’s spiral staircase that provides pictures of the Bund and other key documents and memorabilia that display Shanghai’s rich and complex history.

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