expat compound Xuhui

Some Shanghai compounds chase fashion. Ambassy Court (鸿艺豪苑) never needed to. Sitting on Huaihai Middle Road near Wulumuqi Road — consulate country, library country, the dead centre of the Former French Concession's most established stretch — it has quietly housed diplomats, executives and long-haul expat families since 2001, and remains the definition of a certain kind of Shanghai address: not...