The best fashion and gift stores Coastal China

The Shanghai Museum Shop also offers a number of books in English on history, art and culture.

Foreign language dictionaries and manuals, Chinese methods. Selection of foreign magazines and newspapers. Beautiful books, novels in English, maps and Cds.

Chinese classical literature, calligraphy manuals and art equipment.

Sale of workshops production.

Established in 1929, one of China's largest silk plants: annual production of 400 tons of gross silk, 100 tonnes of woven fabrics and more than 300 000 pieces made. Great selection for sale on site. Visit of the very interesting factory. Nothing is lost: a range of beauty products has been developed from organic and plant elements from cocoons after feeding the silk thread.

Great choice. Pretty cheap.

The most important.

Shanghai store branch.

Collection of garments in natural materials (silk, cotton, linen) intended for export at very low prices.

Several other small shops just next to Soho Silk at 178 Zhongshan Beilu sell a loan to more than interesting prices. Try its luck also on the section of the Zhongshan Lu between Gulou and Xinjiekou. In Confucius Temple district (Fuzimiao), Jiangsu Silk Corporation (Jiangsu Sheng Sichou Gongsi) at 30 of Gongyuan Xijie - Tel (025) 4400 200.

A large clothing shop, not necessarily cheap.

Another shopping mall in the east of the river.