Xuhui attractions

Ask a Shanghai resident where the Bund is and they'll point northeast, toward the stone banks and neon skyline everyone photographs. Ask where the West Bund is, and you'll get a different answer entirely: a few kilometres south along the same river, in Xuhui, where a stretch of former industrial waterfront has quietly become one of the best contemporary art districts in Asia — and one of our own...

Ask visitors to name a Shanghai temple and they'll say the Jing'an Temple or Jade Buddha Temple — coach parks full, incense smoke and selfie sticks. Meanwhile, a few metro stops south in our own Xuhui District stands something older, larger, and somehow still under-visited: Longhua Temple (龙华寺), the oldest and biggest ancient temple complex in Shanghai, with a pagoda that has watched over the city...