Maya Reid

Filmmaker Zhou Bings docudrama shedsnew light on one of Shanghais oldest landmarks

Located on the western bank of the HuangpuRiver in Shanghai, the Bund is well knownfor its visually arresting architecture. Themany financial institutions and hotels done in ahistorical European style along Zhongshan Roadspeak to Shanghais own history as an internationalsettlement. But beyond the buildings statelypatina are the stories of countless lives altered,often messily, by this strip of land and the changesit bore witness to. Six of these peoples stories areexplored in The Bund, a new docudrama by filmmakerZhou Bing. The 90-minute feature receivedrave reviews at the Shanghai TV Festival in Juneand a 47-minute version will be aired internationallyon the National Geographic Channel laterthis year.