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Historic Jewish Haven In Shanghai Faces Demolition
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If you want to keep it you have to spend money. No money - no keep.
Not quite as simple as that in this case. It is not a lack of money condemning this buildings, rather they have been 'compulsorily acquired' to facilitate a state infrastructure project. This is inspite of them being included in a conservation area.
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Had a cousin (if you muddle generations slightly, of course - a second cousin removed once or twice) born in Shanghai during or immediately after WWII. Others ended up in Cuba or Argentina. Anywhere you could get a visa to that wasn't Europe.
I don't know why it's surprising that China doesn't care about historic Jewish neighborhoods though. China has a very cavalier attitude to eminent domain in general.
I don't know why it's surprising that China doesn't care about historic Jewish neighborhoods though. China has a very cavalier attitude to eminent domain in general.
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It's a strange mix, in my experience. While on the one hand the PRC has gone to quite some length to preserve sites of historical interst - even many which are very much inextricably linked with the Imperial past (Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven, Summer Palace.... and on), they can also be very unsentimental when it proves pragmatic. It still bugs me that they knocked down a beautiful old city wall to build a ring-road in the 70s! (The towers are still present, and absolutely stunning..... if you've seen the City Walls in Xi'An, you'll have some idea of what has been lost in Beijing...).
Still, I've seen equal 'crimes' in Belfast, so it's far from a Chinese problem![huh]
Still, I've seen equal 'crimes' in Belfast, so it's far from a Chinese problem![huh]
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Edward, you hit on the twin points of whether to raze it to the ground or save it for pretty much every where the balance of Pragmatic and selective Sentimentalism.
City planners and business have ideas to replace and improve while history lovers want to save and enshrine places and things.
City planners and business have ideas to replace and improve while history lovers want to save and enshrine places and things.
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