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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“Здесь делаютъ БЕЗПЛАТНО прививки отъ холеры” (1937)
Enticing Shanghai Russians to get vaccinated against cholera in 1937, this sign was placed on Pingliang Road Market, in Wayside, where the Eastern…
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Russians beat the grim record again (1933)
Katharine Hadley, a Russian woman from Libava (some say, Kazan), came to China in 1917 and worked in cabarets in Harbin, Dairen and Hankow,…
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Rich Uncle in America? This happens! (1935)
A Fortune for a Cook The local newspapers are full of the story of the Russian emigrant S. V. Mokin, who serves as a cook to Dr S. I. Tarnovsky…
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