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A sojourn in Berlin on the invitation of the Staatsbibliothek has opened some wonderful sources and led to exciting discoveries. One of them was the information about the final years of the Russian journalist Lev Arnoldov, whose obituary appeared in the South China Morning Post in November 1957. In spite of some persistent claims that Arnoldov left ( Read more... )

Hugues Martin on Old Shanghai Blog Shanghailander Turning 15One of the questions was: "If you could have a dinner party and invite characters from Old Shanghai, who would they be and why ( Read more... )

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I'm trying to identify the Russians in these photographs, which were taken in Shanghai in 1945, possibly in December, by the American photographer George Lacks. This friendly meeting centered around a charismatic person in a military uniform. The event is captioned on Getty Images as Correspondents meeting the founder of the Free French Movement in ( Read more... )