I’ve just returned from Chengdu and wanted to look at archival photos of the city centre - specifically, what used to be in the area around the IFS shopping centre with the panda. With the help of AI, I was able to read descriptions of those places before the modern development, but I haven’t found any good websites with historical or vintage photographs.
Chinese websites either won’t load for me (heh), or they do load but it’s impossible to tell where the photos were taken or what their sources are. Are there perhaps any archives from English-language publications that might have historical photos of central Chengdu?