Discover one of Shanghai’s biggest secrets with us in this video as we walk through cozy coffee shops sne explore French architecture.
The French Concession is the area of Shanghai that the French government administered from 1849 until 1946. The tree-lined avenues and the many fine old houses in the area still retain an air of the "Paris of the East". In particular, the many wrought iron fences and stair railings will look familiar to anyone who knows Paris or Montreal.
This has been a fashionable area for well over a century and is now very developed as well. There are plenty of large buildings, mainly upmarket residential and office towers, quite a few hotels and a number of enormous shopping malls. At the same time, many of the picturesque older buildings - even whole neighbourhoods - have been renovated. There are a huge number of boutiques, galleries, bars and cafes scattered through the area.
For many years after the French left, the area was administered by the Chinese as two districts, Xuhui [dead link] (徐汇区 Xúhuì Qū) to the west and Luwan (卢湾区 Lúwān Qū) to the east. In 2011, Luwan was merged into the Huangpu district, but we cover it here because for the traveller it has more in common with the rest of the old French Concession.
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