On a blustery October day, the remaining fragments of what was once Shanghai’s hottest bar and restaurant are being liquidated. Champagne glasses cost 28 yuan ($6), waistcoats hang from a 1500 yuan lime-green screen, and a framed poster from the 1930s leans against the wall.
M on the Bund closed its doors for the last time in February 2022, in the midst of China’s zero-COVID policy. By the time its contents were finally sold off six weeks ago, they had already become relics of another era.
