Shanghai - Old Town / Altstadt 2008

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As mentioned in my last travel post, on the 2nd day of the 2008 May Day holiday trip to Shanghai, we visited the 'Old Town'. It's located south of the Bund in the former Nanshi district, now part of Huangpu district.Wie in meinem letzten Reisebeitrag erwähnt, besuchten wir am 2. Tag unseres Maiferientrips 2008 die Altstadt Shanghais. Diese liegt südlich des Bunds im ehemaligen Stadtteil Nanshi, jetzt Teil von Huangpu.

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But before we get to the Old Town, an interesting way of boiling meat balls:Aber bevor wir zur Altstadt fuhren, eine interessante Art, Fleischbällchen zu kochen:

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A complete cow head, probably to add some flavour, although I wouldn't be surprised if it was eaten later, as well. & when I went to an ATM to withdraw some money, some interesting Chinglish:Ein ganzer Rindskopf, vermutlich, um den Geschmack zu verstärken, obwohl ich nicht überrascht wäre, wenn er dann auch gegessen wurde. Als ich später am ATM Geld ziehen wollte, leuchtete mir interessantes Chinglish entgegen:

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Well, to the Old Town. As Shanghai in general, I don't really find it that interesting. The only reason to go there is to take some pictures of buildings with traditional features. Because, for the most part the Old Town is better described as Shopping Town.Nunja, zur Altstadt. Wie Shanghai insgesamt, finde ich sie eher uninteressant. Der einzige Grund, sie zu besuchen, ist, Bilder von Gebäuden mit traditionellen Merkmalen zu machen. Denn im großen & ganzen kann man die Altstadt besser als Einkaufsstadt bezeichnen.

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Originally, the Old Town was the administration centre of Shanghai. At least, most of the old buildings which remain there were part of the administration. The rest has been demolished. So, what you will find there are usually large former administration buildings converted into shopping centres.Ursprünglich beherbergte die Altstadt das Verwaltungszentrum Shanghais. Zumindest waren die meisten älteren Gebäude, die noch stehen, Teil der Verwaltung. Der Rest wurde abgerissen. Was man dort also vor allem findet, sind ehemalige, große Verwaltungsgebäude, die in Einkaufszentren umgebaut wurden.

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The exceptions are the City God Temple & the Yu Garden, both of which for some reason we didn't visit. Really don't remember why we didn't go there, since I am not a fan of shopping centres.Ausnahmen sind der Stadtgott-Tempel & der Yu-Garten, die wir beide aus unerfindlichen Gründen nicht besuchten. Kann mich einfach nicht erinnern, warum, da ich wirklich kein Freund von Einkaufszentren bin.

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We came pretty close to the City God Temple, though, because this shopping centre below is supposed to be in the neighbourhood. This one looks quite nice, which is why it features in the title photo.Wir waren aber wohl ziemlich nahe am Tempel, denn das Einkaufszentrum unten soll in dessen Nachbarschaft sein. Dieses sieht immerhin recht nett aus, weshalb es auch auf dem Titelbild ist.

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There really are some nice architectural features. Hardly any of those are original, though. For what I can gather, while they demolished the smaller 'less important' buildings in the 2000's, they 'renovated' the others in the process of turning them into shopping centres.Es gibt tatsächlich interessante architektonische Einzelheiten. Davon sind aber wohl kaum welche original. Soweit ich das sehe, hat man, während man die 'weniger wichtigen' Gebäude in den 2000ern abriss, die anderen im Prozess der Umwandlung in Einkaufszentren 'renoviert'.

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So, you have a nice pseudo pagoda like below, but you have no idea how much of it is original. & if you go inside, all you see are shops.Man hat dann also eine Pseudopagode wie unten, aber man weiß nicht, was davon original ist. & wenn man reingeht, sieht man nur Geschäfte.

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But at least you can get some nice pictures.Immerhin kann man hier & da gute Bilder machen.

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& if you are lucky, you come across some nice details like the relief below. May not be original or very old, but it looks nice.& wenn man Glück hat, sieht man hübsche Details wie das Relief unten. Vielleicht nicht original oder alt, aber sieht nett aus.

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The best photos you will get when it's getting dark. As is common in China they overdo it a bit with the lighting, but it makes for good images.Die besten Fotos kann man machen, wenn es dunkel wird. Wie üblich in China übertreibt man es etwas mit der Beleuchtung, aber dafür gibt es gute Bilder.

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A surprise, no shopping. Some kind of old-fashioned entertainment, if I see that correctly.Eine Überraschung: Nichts zu kaufen. Eine Art altmodischer Unterhaltung, wenn ich das richtig sehe.

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I can recommend Shanghai's Old Town only if you are into shopping. Else you can get some nice pictures there, but that's it pretty much. Just like Shanghai overall, its Old Town is fairly boring. Shanghai is a modern megalopolis pretty much like any other. When it has some more Chinese features, these are pretty sterile, not as bad as Beijing (actually Beijing has more older architecture closer to its original state), but not much better either.Ich kann Shanghais Altstadt nur jenen empfehlen, die das Einkaufen lieben. Ansonsten kann man zwar einige nette Bilder machen, aber das war's auch schon. Wie Shanghai als Ganzes ist die Altstadt eher langweilig. Shanghai ist eine Megalopolis wie so ziemlich jede andere. Wenn man eher speziell Chinesisches findet, so ist es eher steril, wenn auch nicht so schlimm wie Peking (wobei es in Peking immerhin mehr ältere Gebäude näher am Originalzustand gibt) ist.

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Because Shanghai is so famous, & Chinese love shopping, they flock there. In that regard, a visit there is actually a very Chinese experience. But if you are more interested in the real Chinese life or in more traditional places, you shouldn't go to Shanghai. In my second-next post (not counting Greece posts or news roundups), I will introduce one such place.Da Shanghai so berühmt ist & Chinesen das Einkaufen lieben, gibt es dort ein Riesengewimmel. In der Hinsicht ist ein Besuch eigentlich eine sehr chinesische Erfahrung. Wer aber lieber das reale chinesische Leben oder eher traditionelle Orte sehen will, der sollte sich Shanghai sparen. In meinem übernächsten Beitrag (ohne Griechenland oder Nachrichten zu zählen) werde ich einen solchen Ort vorstellen.

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For now ... Oh, wait, there is one more nice Chinglish item:Aber jetzt ... Oh, Moment, da war noch etwas nettes Chinglish:

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This is the kind of stuff you find in Chinese hotels at the bedside. We didn't shake this condom because I'm much too stingy. Anyway, for now that should be enough, just a few more pics:Das ist, was man so neben Betten in chinesischen Hotels findet. Da ich geizig bin, wurde es natürlich nicht genutzt. Egal, das soll's jetzt aber gewesen sein, nur noch ein paar Bilder:

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Shanghai again... the only city in China that I miss. Your photos are making me nostalgic.
In all my time in Shanghai I only made it to Old Town once, and I spent most of the day at Yuyuan. It's really as close to "traditional China" as you get in Shanghai. I always laugh though, at the photos of these long lined buildings with pagoda roofs on everything and a skyscraper or two in the background, because I think a part of me was expecting every city block in China to look like that back when I first arrived. Then reality kicks in and we all start asking ourselves "what was I thinking, coming here?"
Gotta love your Chinglish photos though. I wish I had the album I collected during my time in Beijing. Restaurant menus are the best. I saw a menu once in a restaurant at Changying Mall where there was a dish whose Chinese name translated as "spicy twin-river fish." The English translation they put on the page was "two rivers and a spicy fish."
In unrelated news, how do you get this twin-column format in an article?

I always wondered why they didn't use traditional styles more often in modern buildings. But I didn't expect much more than socialist megalomania from official buildings.
Lots of Chinglish to come in the future, though not as much as could be. I somehow got used to it & didn't take as many pictures as I could have.

For tables, it depends on the frontend you use. In ecency (former esteem) you have a simple button to add a table. But I use markdown: https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/
Tables are pretty far down the page.

Болшае спасибо.

Gern geschehen.

I'm German. Don't think I ever used Russian here.

I know, but I don't speak German and frankly, I needed an excuse to test my Cyrillic keyboard and your comment just happened to be what I was responding to when I plugged it in for the first time.