Charles Henry Gonda ( wiki), who designed the largest number of movie houses in Shanghai, was also the author of the conversion of Jimmy…
From the Wikipedia entry on C. H. Gonda: In February 1928, C. H. Gonda relocated his practice to the Shahmoon Building and announced a…
Among its many original insights, this article by Duncan Hewitt, on the corporate history of Brunner Mond & ICI ( 卜内门洋行) in Shanghai, shows…
As a follow-up to the recent story of Russian repatriation from Shanghai to the USSR, here is a story of a dangerous backward trip, published in…
In an age of demolishing public housing and replacing it with shiny new carbon-hungry developments in the name of “regeneration”,…
Guest blog: The Cercle Sportif Français: Elite cosmopolitanism in Shanghai’s Former French Concession. | Visualising China Reposting…
