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(Zhensi Dawang; 136 East Nanjing Rd; 136 East Nanjing Rd) The city’s largest fabric chain is good for a quick browse to see a typical selection of Chinese prints and fabric designs. In-store tailors can make you a custom-fit qipao (cheongsam), shirt or jacket in three to 10 days for around Y1800. Twenty-four-hour rush jobs are also possible.

Duoyunxuan Art Shop Art

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(Duoyun Xuan; 422 East Nanjing Rd; 422 9.30am-9.30pm; East Nanjing Rd) A multistorey, traditional-looking building (look for the two enormous calligraphy brushes outside) with an excellent selection of art and calligraphy supplies. The 2nd floor is one of the best places for heavy art books, both international and Chinese, and the 3rd floor houses antiques and some excellent calligraphy and brush-painting galleries. You can get your own chop (seal) made here.

Great World

If you were passing through Shanghai in the 1920s or ’30s, chances were you’d wind up at Great World Offline map Google map (Da Shijie; cnr East Yan’an & Middle Xizang Rds; People’s Sq) sooner rather than later – no place better epitomised the city’s reputation as a den of escapism and vice, and at its peak it allegedly saw some 20,000 visitors per day. The six-storey building initially opened in 1917 as a place for acrobats and nightclub stars, rivalling the existing New World on Nanjing Rd. For the first decade or so it was relatively tame, gradually incorporating a movie theatre, fortune tellers and Chinese opera shows. By the time Pockmarked Huang got ahold of it in 1931, however, it had become a centre for the bizarre and burlesque, its floors a mixture of singsong girls, gambling, opium and prostitution.

It’s been in a state of perpetual renovation since 2002, and while it is rumoured that it will one day reopen as an entertainment centre, nothing so far has materialised.

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