Nanjing Road’s place in the world of Shanghai
What Park Street is to Calcutta, Oxford Street to London- Nanjing Road is to Shanghai.
This Shanghai Street life photo essay looks at the road through everyday scenes, through street food, Tai Chi, statues, cats and crowds, from morning light to neon night.
The world rotates around the road – once every twenty-four hours
“The BUND”, Shanghai, lies at one end
The Bund at night- from Nanjing Road
Morning by the Bund
Nanjing Road Shanghai at night- everyday affair
A regular morning on the street
Binging upon squids and octopi is routine Shanghai Street food.
Mornings for reflection, and burning the squids and octopi
All under the watchful gaze of the “Iron man”
Tai Chi flows ignoring the lure of an Apple. | Tai Chi in Shanghai
Earth’s rotation makes a difference to the footfall on Nanjing Street (Nanjing Road street photography)
The keeper of Nanjing Street keeps a tab of such rotations
The people who make the street
The voyeur of Nanjing street | (Shanghai urban photography)
Swordsmen practice to protect Pandora from the ‘gaze’ (Shanghai street culture)
The patron saint of Nanjing Street keeps blessing passersby.
Still, someone has the gall to walk past statue that signifies the spirit of Nanjing Street.
What lurks around?
The cats stick to their job of lurking around – even in Nanjing Road
Though Popmart and Miniso Land crowd around – Nanjing Road never lets go of its past
Is it Communist?
Is it Capitalist?
She couldn’t care less as long as its Labubu Shanghai land.
To be unaware in sleep is bliss
For some, a smoke is worth a stroll on Nanjing Road.
For some, the doom scroll on the mobile , in the alleyway- the ‘opium of the masses’ keeps working its way in Nanjing Road.
