What better way to commemorate the end to two years of nonstop construction on our beloved Bund than by taking a trip back in time to see how it looked nearly a century before the new traffic tunnel was necessary? The stunning photographs you see before you are culled from Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time, a collection of more than 3,000 images edited by Christian Henriot from the Institut Universitaire de France. more ›

As an update to yesterday's Bund fire, we present Xinmin's news report: The fire began at 4pm, across the street from the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China's Shanghai Bund branch. The flames sprung from the Bund renovation platform, starting after errant welding caused something to go ablaze. But firefighters managed to wrestle it under control without causing any casualties. Interestingly enough, the Bund wasn't the only thing to catch fire yesterday. In the same morning, six floors of Ocean Hotel in Hongkou began billowing smoke. The cause was also "welding." more ›