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- noun an
architectural style found inShanghai ,China , consisting of two or three floors and a front yard protected with high walls
Etymologies
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Examples
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The furniture of the shikumen is the most "Chinese" of Shanghai's furniture.
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Ditto for a gander at Xintiandi, a cluster of renovated "shikumen" traditional buildings housing elegant coffee shops, clubs and boutiques -- but check the menus before sitting down for a bite to eat.
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The customs are a legacy of the city's old "shikumen" or stone-gate communal houses.
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The contrast is implied and, I think in one case explicit with the old-style shikumen houses portrayed so memorably in his first novel.
Nostalgia and consumerism in post-Communist China Peter Rozovsky 2010
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If I could tell them I was gay, I wouldn't have needed to get married, says my guide, 30-year-old Fen, as we sit in a converted Shanghainese shikumen lane house near the popular tourist spot People's Park.
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New skyscrapers amidst old residential shikumen buildings.
WN.com - Articles related to Japan wants to exit from aid politics as China muscles in 2010
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New skyscrapers amidst old residential shikumen buildings.
WN.com - Articles related to Japan wants to exit from aid politics as China muscles in 2010
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Instead of sweeping away all remnants of the old neighborhoods, the pair preserved building materials of demolished homes and architectural door styles, called shikumen.
Forbes.com: News 2010
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At that time in Shanghai, people lived in crammed, communal-style quarters in shikumen - low-rise townhouses in which families shared toilets and kitchens.
NYT > Home Page By GAO YUBING 2010
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New skyscrapers amidst old residential shikumen buildings.
WN.com - Articles related to Japan wants to exit from aid politics as China muscles in 2010
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