Ignatius Cathedral, the neighbouring Bibliotheca Zi-ka-wei, a library built by the Jesuits a number of preserved convent and school buildings the Jesuit observatory the T'ou-se-we Museum, housed in part of a former Jesuit orphanage with interesting displays on the history of Xujiahui, the orphanage and its workshop famed for producing works of Chinese and Western art and the tomb of Xu Guangqi, an imperial official and famous Catholic convert whose family donated much of the land in Xujiahui to the church. The area has many buildings built by the Church during the French period and thereafter. It was not part of the Concession, but was largely owned by the Catholic Church, and was effectively an extension of it. Xujuahui (old spelling Zi-ka-wei or Siccawei) is an area to the south-west of the French Concession. In addition to the official administrative districts Xuhui and Luwan, the French concession area has some well-known streets and neighborhoods. 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. There are a huge number of boutiques, galleries, bars and cafes scattered through the area.ДЇor many years after the French left, the area was administered by the Chinese as two districts, Xuhui (еѕђж±‡еЊє XГєhuГ¬ QЕ«) to the west and Luwan (еЌўж№ѕеЊє LГєwДЃn QЕ«) to the east. At the same time, many of the picturesque older buildings - even whole neighbourhoods - have been renovated. There are plenty of large buildings, mainly upmarket residential and office towers, quite a few hotels and a number of enormous shopping malls. This has been a fashionable area for well over a century and is now very developed as well. In particular, the many wrought iron fences and stair railings will look familiar to anyone who knows Paris or Montreal. The tree-lined avenues and the many fine old houses in the area still retain an air of the 'Paris of the East'. The French Concession is the area of Shanghai that the French government administered from 1849 until 1946. The eastern part of it wraps around the Old City Shanghai in 1935, with French Concession outlined in red.

Shanghai dynasty arcade full screen