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A friend pointed out some curious newspaper coverage, unavailable to me before, which inspired this blog entry about the Russian woman Katherine Hadley. In 1933, Hadley stabbed and killed her lover Walter Clifford Youngs in Shanghai. (And according to the entry above, the Shanghai crime was not her first!) Hadley was tried in Shanghai as an English ( Read more... )

Rue de Marche, now Shunchang Road 顺昌路.


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“Being an editor has done something strange to me... Already I am growing stodgy and inclined to admit there are after all two sides to every question.” Emily Hahn, Vox, September 1935.

Thanks to a discovery by a fellow researcher of Shanghai modernism, Kelly W. S. Ritter, we now have a “then and now” comparison of The Modern Press publishing ( Read more... )