Hong Kong Young Writers Anthologies Fiction 12 | Page 192

The New Tales of Old Shanghai Good Hope Primary School cum Kindergarten, Cheung, Mo Kiu Monique – 11 T his is the year of 2061 and I was doing a research paper at school about the history of China. I was deciding whether I should do the project about Old Shanghai or the Qin Dynasty. I finally decided on the Old Shanghai so I programmed my time-travel phone to bring me to 1930’s in Shanghai, China. I saw a glimmer of light and the next thing I knew, I was in Shanghai. I saw some well-furnished houses on the northern part of Shanghai while some shabbier houses stood on the southern part. They were all made of bricks and stone. I was dumbfounded! It was like two separate cities. Another thing I noticed was that some foreign people wore wigs and a lot of jewellery where