The Bund
Waterfront promenade lined with grand nineteen twenties banking halls and colonial-era facades along a river.
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This guide to the Bund in Shanghai centers on the old Cathay Hotel, built in 1929 by trader Victor Sassoon as the finest hotel in the Far East, complete with a jazz band that defined 1930s Shanghai nightlife. It follows what happened to that band through war and revolution, when jazz was branded decadent and the musicians had to stop playing for over a decade. Look across the water at the hotel's green pyramid roof as you take in the row of banking and trading-house facades lining the promenade.
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