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The news reached Shanghai on the same day (1941)
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The fatuous radio announcement by Molotov in Moscow was at 12:15, which corresponded to 17:15 in Shanghai, according to the time zones back then.
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An article on Paul Komor
Friend’s research: A Hungarian Old China Hand and the End of Empire: Loyalty Struggles in Interwar Shanghai's Migrant Community, by Mátyás Mervay.
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Ex Oriente Lux
Both days of the Ex Oriente Lux online-offline conference were quite interesting, and Leonid Livak’s exposé of ingrained antisemitism of the Russian émigré elite - and how their complacency later contributed to the erosion of the literary diaspora - was very convincing.
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The biography of the architect Igor Pakidoff...
...is up on Building Russian Shanghai.
In his autobiography, Pakidoff mentions starting as Draughtsman at Elliott Hazzard in 1930 and attending a correspondence course in Architecture in 1933-1937. He failed to graduate because of the shortage of tuition money, but in 1937 he was hired as Assistant Architect by “a British construction firm” and ( Read more... )
