Broadway Mansions - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Broadway Mansions - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Broadway Mansions (, Shanghainese: Pahlowe Dusa) is a nineteen-floor Art Deco five-star hotel in Shanghai, China.It is described in 1993 as "Shanghai's best known building"; see "Shanghai", The New Encyclopædia Britannica, 15th ed., Vol. 27 (Encyclopædia Britannica, 1993):274;Dmitri Kessel, On Assignment: Dmitri Kessel, Life photographer (Abrams, 1985):149.Noël Barber, The Fall of Shanghai: The Communist Take-over in 1949 (Macmillan, 1979):96. and was for over five decades one of the primary symbols of Shanghai.Sidney Shapiro, An American in China: Thirty Years in the People's Republic (New World Press, 1979):55. Read more on Wikipedia
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