Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Center

Tucked away in the basement level of a nondescript apartment building, the Shanghai Propaganda Poster Museum is a remarkable private museum dedicated to documenting the collective spirit of Chinese communism as depicted on thousands upon thousands of striking posters in the years since the 1949 establishment of the People's Republic. A labor of love, the museum was founded by Yang Pei Ming, who grew concerned that both the art of the posters and the complicated history that they document were in danger of disappearing in a China that has increasingly embraced consumer capitalist culture since the death of Mao Zedong in 1976.

No. 50 Moganshan Road

On the south bank of the Suzhou River in Zhabei District, there is the most famous "community of artists in Shanghai", No. 50 Moganshan Road (Mò gān shān lù 50 hà0 莫干山路50号). The address was once a factory which belonged to a famous businessman back in the 1930s. The workshops and warehouses there were used for producing silk and calico. Since then, buildings with different uses and features were continuously raised on this 41 thousand square meters area and well preserved till now.