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Uncovering the mass murder of foreign detainees in the French Concession prison

Expanding the Necropolis of Russian Shanghai is an increasingly slow process. At this point, most of the available archival sources have been thoroughly combed. When a new name is added to the list of Russian deaths in Shanghai - which by now has more than 2130 persons ( Read more... )

This piercingly sad article appeared in South China Morning Post in 1988. It talks about the unrecognized American citizen Marjorie Fuller and her Polish mother Seraphine Fuller, who spent twenty years in Chinese labor camps and then languished in a retirement home for foreigners. (By the way, the chronicler of the Russian diaspora, Vladimir ( Read more... )

This caged prisoner was photographed c. 1910, most likely in the old town of Shanghai:

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