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Anyway, electric cars are the future!

This is, reportedly, the Andersen & Meyer store at Yuen Ming Yuen Road 圆明园路.


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Historic photographs taken inside the walled city 老城厢 are painfully few; those with identifiable locations are even fewer. I cannot be 100% sure, but I am convinced the following two images found in the Francis Stafford collections, depicting the protestant chapel Fuyintang 福音堂, are taken in the old city. There were several such chapels in Shanghai ( Read more... )

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A real trove of hi-res archival images, photos, maps and textual records, mostly related to the activities of the YMCA in China: the Online Archives of the University of Minnesota.


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I am working on a paper for a food-themed history conference, and as I was going through my sources, I reread the article The Russians in East Asia by a certain Colonel Nikolayev. It was published in 1944 in The XXth Century, a Nazi publication covered by Paul French. This time I looked closer at the illustrations, and although the image quality is ( Read more... )

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