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Annoyingly colorized and of uncertain provenance*, this is still a spectacular footage of Shanghai c. August 1938. It lets you experience the awesome grandeur of the Bund, the giant traffic curve of Avenue Edward VII, the left-side driving on Nanking Road (drive slowly not to hit those random pedestrians!), the tremendous bustle of the downtown ( Read more... )

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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...who was buried at Shantung Road Cemetery, was apparently the first British architect in Shanghai.

Somewhere here could be his work:

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I found this useful, and maybe others will: a list of all marriages registered at the British Consulate in Shanghai in the years:

1921-1926 (pp. 58-106),
1926-1930 (pp. 58-102),
1931-1935 (pp. 52-92),
1936-1940 (pp. 31-51),
1941-1945 (pp. 65-90)Click "Preview an image of the this record" and leaf through the document to the pages indicated above. ( Read more... )

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A friend pointed out this wonderful video footage from 1928, which shows the wedding of Charlotte Berkin and William Simpson in Shanghai. We see the outside of the Trinity Cathedral, and then the garden party at the residence of their friends, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Nash, at 63 Yu Yuen Road. The immediacy of the moving image combined with the ( Read more... )