Been digging in Shanghai Hongs directories kindly provided by Tess Johnston.


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Following up on yesterday's research, I remembered that thanks to a friend's inquest I came to own a scan of a 1922 map of the French Concession. At that time half the streets in there were only a blueprint. Here's a fragment of the that map. It shows the location of the park in question ("pépinière" is French for "nursery"), where Fred Richardson ( Read more... )

I came across Expatriate Adventures by Fred Richardson, and there was this photograph:


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