To mark the 1st of September - always the first day of school in Russia - and at the same time to acknowledge my being in the US at the moment, here is a photograph of the 1940 graduation day at Shanghai's American School on Avenue Petain, with Washington Apartments in the background.

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It is not so easy to unravel this sequence of misunderstandings, cause by a dated picture and some potentially offensive wording in Shanghai school textbooks:


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https://magazeta.com/2017/12/arc-school-remi/


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