Shanghai: Cultural artifacts and consumer electronics

Memorable experience: The middle-aged man motioned with his hand. Follow me. As I left the knickknack-packed sidewalks of Dongtai Road — Shanghai’s answer to London’s Portobello Road outdoor antique market — I did wonder if this was the most prudent move. Although throughout my stay in this bustling city I’d always felt exceedingly safe, this invitation to enter a dark and crumbling row house did give me pause.
My concern was unwarranted. After climbing a wooden staircase so narrow it would have denied entrance

to any NFL player, and so rickety as to cause me to lose my footing twice, I emerged into a room brimming with an awful past. By the light of a single bulb, I made out the faces and figures of hundreds of statuettes, all testifying to Mao’s Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, when anyone remotely connected to education was branded an enemy of the state. [...]

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