Local Specialties and Souvenirs

Known as "Shopping Paradise" and "the Oriental Paris", Shanghai is a shopper's paradise. Yuyuan Shopping City, Xujiahui Shopping City, New Shanghai Shopping City and Jiali Sleepless City are the bustling "Four Cities" in Shanghai. Yuyuan Shopping City is the venue for specialist Chinese goods ranging from small articles, local crafts and the like to antiques, jade wares and gold and silver jewelry. Local products like, Gu Embroidery , also called Luxiang Yuan Embroidery, from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), is now used in producing clothes, ornaments and bedding.

Dongtai Road Antique Market is a market mainly dealing with the porcelains, jade wares, bronze wares, wooden wares, calligraphy and paintings and embroidery utensils. Lots of tourists from home and aboard come to this famous market.

Cultural Street at Fuzhou Road: Traditional paper, ink, quilled pens, ink stands, professional books, stationery etc Antique Market at Dongtai Road: Second-hand porcelains, precious metals & stones, various folk cultural relics.

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Elegant Art Gallery, Shanghai
Add: No. 97 Shui Cheng South Road, Shanghai 200336, China
Tel: 86 21 6208 2788
Fax: 86 21 6209 9767

Tourist Souvenirs Shopping Building
Add: No. 558, East Nanjing Road

Shanghai Fine Arts Articles Shop
Add: No. 402, Fuzhou Road Tel: 63528706

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Clothing Street at Huating Road
Garments of low price fashions.

Hardware Street at Beijing East Road
Hardware, electrical appliances and materials machine spare parts, accessories and electrical tools.

Flowers & Birds Market at Jiangyin Road
Flowers, plants, fish, insects, birds and miniature pot scenarios.

Shanghai Cybermart
Add: No. 282Huaihai Zhong Lu
Metro: Huangpi Nan Lu