In 1937, the coming of war saw the swift eclipse of Shanghai, one of the capitals of international modernism. The rules and rituals of a complex and cosmopolitan society, contemporaneously characterised by a profound social disparity and by opportunities for social mobility unthinkable in the rest of China, dissolved on the cusp of the Second World War.
Since 2010, the creation of the Bund 1919 has begun, through the redevelopment of the historic Wing On 2 cotton industrial complex located in Wusong.
The renovation project was carried out by the Shanghai Shenfang Investment Management, of which the sole members are Red Town Corporation (developer of Ten Steel) and Shangtex (the textile company that owns the area).
The relevant characteristics are both in the industrial architecture and in the role that this mill has in the history of cotton industry in Shanghai and in China.
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