摘要
House-hunting in Shanghai is notoriously difficult.Spacious,well-propor-tioned lane houses one can turn into modern homes are hard to come by.New high-rise flats,on the other hand,often fail to evoke the romance and Old World charm of our beloved city So when The Rooster owner John Cox and his girlfriend Julia Taylor found an airy pad in the heart of the former French Concession,they knew they had stumbled upon a real gem.