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Guest blog: The Cercle Sportif Français: Elite cosmopolitanism in Shanghai’s Former French Concession. | Visualising China

Reposting the newest entry from the HPC blog, which studies the French Club. Also, sharing a photo that I saw in an old newspaper last night. Because we don't only want to look at murals and sculpture, do we?


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Shine.cn is known to deliberately "forget" and sinify the foreign names of Shanghai landmarks, so now Lagrene Elementary School, or École de Lagrené, built in 1935 and recently moved to new spot, is called Lagena in the English articles about it.


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This article in Russian was written for Magazeta.


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A little while ago we appreciated some trick pictorials on the pages of old Shanghai newspapers, and here is an accidental trompe l'oeil, which the journalists found quite funny. Two years before the Sassoon House (Cathay Hotel) was built on the waterfont, the architects at the Palmer & Turner studio made its plaster model and carried it upstairs ( Read more... )

Sun Sun Co. department store 新新百货公司
Built in 1924-1925, opened in January 1926.
Architect: C. H. Gonda
Address: 720 East Nanjing Road 南京东路720好

Read the article in Russian in magazeta: https://magazeta.com/arc-xinxin/


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