徐汇滨江地区

This guide to Xuhui Riverside in Shanghai opens with the Black Christmas crash of 1946, when a passenger plane broke apart in fog short of Longhua Airport's runway, once among the busiest airfields in the Far East. It traces the airport's rise in 1922, its decline after passenger flights stopped in 1966, and the runway's closure for good in 2011. Look toward the open lawns by the water where propeller planes once lined up.