Image: North-China Sunday News, Feb 28, 1932.
This map was published in the aftermath of the "Shanghai Incident," during which the residential district of Chapei (Zhabei) was incinerated.
Hand-drawn aerial map of Shanghai, seen from the north
Image: North-China Sunday News, Feb 28, 1932.
This map was published in the aftermath of the "Shanghai Incident," during which the residential district of Chapei (Zhabei) was incinerated.
Posts from This Journal “1930s” Tag
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Lawn Cinema, the movie theater for Russian-language films Lawn Cinema, just south of the French Club's tennis courts, used to have its gate on Avenue Joffre, at No. 900. It opened in June 1932 as an…
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Triangle Motors (1931–1949), the creation of Lazarus Zigalnitsky Some time ago I posted about auto services and garages in Shanghai. Today I was flipping through an issue of Le journal de Shanghai and came…
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The leadership of Kuomintang, art deco style (1934) Drawn by Hou Kao. Image: Le journal de Shanghai, July 1934. Now, can one make a cartoon portrait of modern China's Politburo Standing…
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