This touching nostalgic piece comparing Shanghai in 1852 and fifteen years later was published in 1867 in The London and China Telegraph:


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...so if you haven’t saved the Hong Lists from the Internet Archive yet, they are no longer there.

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Among the useful features on the site of Société d’Histoire des Français de Chine are these detailed maps of the International Settlement and the French Concession (1939; 1946), as well as the 1946 map of Shanghai’s old city, originally released by Christian Henriot of Virtual Shanghai. They are easily scalable and moveable.

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New upload on the Internet Archive: North-China Hong List, Shanghai Directory, July 1934. The PDF is downloadable, searchable, with index, interactive TOC and bookmarks.

My other uploads.



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The best collection of links to all Shanghai-related Directories, Who's Whos and Hong Lists is compiled on the China Families website, which is dedicated to the records of foreigners who lived in China. The list now includes the latest uploads to archive.org, at the bottom:

https://www.chinafamilies.net/directories/

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