Anecdotes about Shanghai street names
After Shanghai opened its port in 1843, It has become a city of immigrants.
Before
the liberation of Shanghai in 1949, many avenues are named after foreign
celebrities and places, such as “Lincoln Avenue”, “Avenue Joffre”, “Avenue
Petain”, “Gordon Road” and so on. Theses names remind us our colonial pasts.
Therefore, they were cancelled after the liberat…