Birthday Buildings is an annual column that highlights Shanghai’s centenarian buildings - that is, those that were built one hundred years ago.

1922

According to the SMC report, there were 63,387 Chinese houses and 4,580 foreign houses in the International Settlement. And the building continued. Some of the large projects on the Bund, which started ( Read more... )

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“If you haven’t read it [Á rebours] yet, do read it. It was misunderstood and undervalued. It went unnoticed after being declared immoral and shaky. It’s amazing how people love justifying the absence of aesthetic taste by labeling books moral or immoral. The same fate befell Madame Bovary and-not many people know this-Les Fleurs du Mal!!! ( Read more... )

Locations were identified for these three interesting houses, from the albums of the late Carla Chalmers (née Bos).

1. Residence at 9 Route Pichon, photographed in 1922. The house is still standing at No. 3 Lane 9 Fenyang Road 汾阳路9弄3号. PastVu location.



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“Имажинисты адресовали свой журнал тем, кто предпочитает «белоснежные горы прекрасного» благоустроенным курортам в «стране утилитарного». Первый номер, вышедший в ноябре 1922 года, открывался «Не передовицей», которая гласила: «Всякий, кого привлекает свежесть морозного воздуха и прозрачность вечного льда, может смело подниматься на многоверстную ( Read more... )

...We were on a ferry between Dieppe and Newhaven when some young liar recommended: “You just have to see Whitechapel! It is tremendously interesting. The local Chinese are fierce like the Boxers. The Jews are straight from the biblical Jerusalem. When you go, place guns in both pockets, and keep your fingers on the triggers. Give ten shillings to ( Read more... )

FAVOR, by Mihail Kuzmin (Михаил Кузмин), a poem written in Berlin, in May 1922:

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ПОРУЧЕНИЕЕсли будешь, странник, в Берлине ( Read more... )

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