The building that housed his Star Garage still stands on Nanjing Road.

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When the Deco craze swept the city in the 1930s, the style became so popular that the furniture was mass-produced and offered for sale in the city's fancy Nanjing Road department stores, says Wm.

WSJ: Decorating in Deco

In short, daily life in a hardscrabble farming village in Szechuan province is a world away from the Shanghai Nanjing Road ritzy shopping street or even an old, walled neighborhood in Harbin, a crossroad of many cultures in northeastern China.

FORBES: From Japan, A Take On China

The crowd began lining up at the Store on the corner of Henan Middle Road and East Nanjing Road at 10pm on Thursday, and were rewarded for their patience and bitterness-munching skills with staff hand-outs of high-fives, full-on reciprocal man-on-man hugs with hoisting involved, and free gray t-shirts.

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Much has changed since late 1990 when 27-year-old Zhang opened his first appliance store at the intersection of Jiangsu and Ninghai Road in historic Nanjing.

FORBES: Clicking With New Customers