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Shanghai: Sights in the City (1858)
How exciting to meet a colleague who devised English-language tours in the walled city of Shanghai exactly 150 years before I did! In 1858, a reader of the North-China Herald pointed out that the walled Chinese City is virtually unknown to the travelers and foreign residents, so he suggested a walking itinerary inside and outside the city walls, ( Read more... ) -
Summer heat in Shanghai
...as presented by the Zikawei Observatory in 1927. The thin line shows the 70-year average (of daily highs or noonday measurements, not averages, I think); the thick line - the year 1927. One third of all the days the heat reaches 97 F (36 C) or higher, and one day it hits 100 F (37,8 C). (This is not the correct way to read statistics, but) an ( Read more... ) -
Happy Easter greetings from old Shanghai
1936 - a Happy Easter photo collage by the Russian photography artist Leonid Skvirsky:
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"Siccawei says" (1940)
This cute design of a weather forecast in the Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury, October 1940, framed by the two spires of the St. Ignatius Cathedral:
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Missions Recoletos by A. J. Yaron (1932)
Building Russian Shanghai is at work assembling the legacy of Shanghai's top Russian architect, A. J. Yaron. To see the building on the map go here: https://pastvu.com/p/1009686
