"The Virtual Shanghai Project"

Christian Henriot, Professor, History, Lumière-Lyon 2 University
Wen-hsin Yeh, Professor, History, UC Berkeley

Virtual Shanghai is a research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The objective of the project is to write a history of the city through the combined mobilization of textual records, photographs and GIS-based maps. On the research side, the platform will offer various ways to step into the history of the city and follow its course at different levels over time. On the resource side, apart from providing original textual and visual documents, it develops a powerful cartographic tool for both analysis and creation of maps.