Virtual Shanghai

Shanghai Urban Space in Time

Virtual Shanghai is upgrading !  "VS 2.0" is about to be launched with a new graphic interface and new features. It may take another few weeks, but you can already have a preview with the new virtual cities under the Virtual Cities Project. We shall keep the current platform running as we migrate the data, hopefully without interrupting access to the VS collections. We apologize in advance for any problems. We shall strive to make them short.

Overview:

"Virtual Shanghai is a research and resource platform on the history of Shanghai from the mid-nineteenth century to nowadays. It incorporates four sets of documents: essays, original documents, photographs, and maps. The objective of the project is to write a history of the city through the combined mobilization of these various types of documents. The implementation of this approach relies on the use of NTIC and GIS technologies. On the research side, the platform offers 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 real-time mapping. The authors of the present project suscribe to the idea of sharing scholarship and research tools for the benefit of scholars, students, and citizens at large."

Blog: Virtual Shanghai

Contact:

Mail: virtualshanghai@ish-lyon.cnrs.fr

Agence Nationale de la Recherche:

"Virtual Shanghai: Shanghai Urban Space in Time" is one of the research projects in social sciences and humanities selected in 2005 by the National Research Agency in France. The ANR attributed a three-year grant to support the project.

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