(101 Things About Shanghai) Chinese Laundry

I’ll readily admit I was reluctant to post on this theme as it is high up there in my list of cliches to steer clear of. However, a cliche is generally based on some tired, overused aspect of reality and that is true of this topic.

In Shanghai, laundry is everywhere. It’s hanging on bamboo poles out of windows, it’s strung up on wires attached to power poles, it’s stretched on cords or poles across alleyways, and  it fences in sidewalks.

The photos I’ve posted here today are all taken within a two block radius: on Jiashan lu, between Fuxing Lu and Jianguo Lu.  If I had bothered to go further afield with my covert cell phone photography, I could have brought you even more laundry. Taikang Lu in particular has some excellent lane laundry.  You get the idea.

Here are some more examples: