Surprising (and pleasing) is the fact that the formidable Linda Cooke Johnson - the author of two indispensable books, Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074-1858 (1995) and Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China (1993) - started her academic career in Chinese history quite late...

Linda Cooke Johnson

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Interview with Ursula K Le Guin, 2004.

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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