A Walk Along The Bund, Shanghai

Global Politics by La Trobe University

Oct 9, 201827:09Education

The Bund, or Wai Tan in Chinese, is a waterfront strip in central Shanghai. It is within the former Shanghai International Settlement, and so all the buildings there have a grand colonial feeling, right across the river...

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