The earliest Russian pimp in Shanghai?

[avezink]

This is an excerpt from H. B. Morse's "Trade and Administration in China" illustrating the typical criminal cases in Shanghai's foreign courts. At the time, the Russian community consisted of about 350 people - and at least one of them managed to lure an Englishwoman into a brothel. Interestingly, he was given an easy two-week term in prison and

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[anonymous]

Probably he was of Jewish extraction. A lot of them emigrated to GB in the late 19th century.

[avezink]

Indeed, this is very likely!