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The yet another recent book about the Sassoons (who does not like to write about rich and famous?) uses some information about Emmanuel Gran from our Building Russian Shanghai:



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The recent post by Historic Shanghai about Spanish-style architecture for China promoted by Robert Fan and Carl Lindbom, made us curious about the earliest examples of this style and its practitioners in Shanghai.

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Map of the surviving architectural works of Russian émigrés in Shanghai, 1924-1959:



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