The 24-year-old Portuguese street artist Vhils has taken to the streets of Shanghai with a new exhibition of outdoor murals etched into the walls of crumbling buildings.

The former Palace Hotel fronting Shanghai 's Bund waterfront is one of the city's oldest hotels. In its opening year, 1909, the First International Opium Commission was held here, and Chiang Kai-shek ...

Some local residents worry about the street’s future. For Paul French, a Shanghai-based writer and blogger, even protected status offers little real protection. “It’s meaningless,” he said.