Pudong, Shanghai
Watercolour, crayon and marker
©2022 Charlene Brown
In the early twentieth century, the Bund, with dozens of foreign banks and magnificent commercial buildings in the Beaux Arts Style, was world famous, the best known area of Shangai. However, The Communist government that took over in 1949 began the systematic removal of these ‘colonialist’ structures and, although there was some restoration in the 1970s and ’80s, international interest soon shifted to the Pudong New Area, directly across the river, when its amazing redevelopment began in the late twentieth century. Some of the buildings shown here were not completed until the twenty-first century, but the structure most often associated with Pudong – the iconic Oriental Pearl TV Tower (with red and blue lighting in the painting), was completed in 1994.
