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A recent RNA online lecture on Constantinople as the arrival point of Russian post-revolution exiles, in 1919-1923: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UvEeqUNRS4

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Hudec Cultural Foundation reminds us that January 8 is the birthday of Shanghai’s foremost foreign architect, L. E. Hudec. The following paragraph is adapted from their FB page.

László Hudec, the star architect of Shanghai, was born exactly 128 years ago: 8th of January in 1893. When he was 33, The China Press published the young architect’s ( Read more... )

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We’ve all seen those visual comparisons demonstrating how much road space is required for people driving cars and how little space would be required if these same people took a bus.

Well, one hundred years ago in Shanghai a magazine made a similar comparison to show how little street space is taken by a trolleybus as opposed to a bunch of ( Read more... )

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Bureau de la Presse-Russe à Constantinople // Bureau of the Russian Press in Constantinople // Бюро русской печати в Константинополе


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