...but these are just by me. Together with uploads by other contributors the total number of historic Shanghai images is over 7,000.

Below is a selection from my recent 100 uploads. Click on any image to go to its PastVu page and see more details.



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...but in reality, the total number of mapped historic images of Shanghai has surpassed 6,600, thanks to our resourceful and knowledgeable collaborators.

Below is a selection from my recent 100 uploads. Click on any image to go to its PastVu page and see more details.



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1935:

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There are 159,750 pages in the Arolsen Archive's section pertaining to refugees from China, mostly Russians; the relevant category is 3.2.3.2 - Files of UNHCR Hongkong. Each person's case contains between 6 and 12 pages, so the estimate number of personal cases is about 20,000, but each case usually contains several names of family members ( Read more... )

1933 vs. 2014


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This article in Russian was written for Magazeta.


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ATMOSPHERE OF INTERNATIONALISM

Rue Massenet on the way thither seemed to be a region in which Anglo-Saxondom shrunk, for on one corner hung the flag of Consulate General of Finland,* blue against the argent spring sky, and farther down the street, where a little villa sat back in a garden, a green, yellow and black flag above the seal of Consulado ( Read more... )

These two hospitals were designed in the 1930s for Tientsin (Tianjin 天津), but who copied whose design?

In October 1934, the British Municipal Council of Tientsin announced an open competition for the design of the British Hospital. In June 1935, the Shanghai-based Italian architect Paolo Chelazzi won the competition with this design:

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