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Here is the final excerpt from J. H. Arnold’s letter from 1936. Julean Herbert Arnold (1875-1946) was the US Commercial Attaché in China from 1917 to 1940. His papers are in the Hoover Institution. The first excerpt: https://avezink.livejournal.com/366932.html


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The opportunity to walk freely is in short supply in today’s Shanghai, so here is J. H. Arnold’s letter on this subject, sent in 1936.

Julean Herbert Arnold (1875-1946) was the US Commercial Attaché in China from 1917 to 1940. His papers are in the Hoover Institution.


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UCLA Film & Television Archive has posted this wonderful historic footage, which closely documents the first visit of Anna May Wong to Shanghai in February 1936:

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The film is silent, but during the ferry ride from SS President Hoover to the Customs Jetty on the Bund, the actress converses with the lucky fans who managed to get the passes to ride ( Read more... )

Not the greatest quality image, but here the old meets the new, on the 1936 cover of the China Press:

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