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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Vox, the ‘child’ of Emily Hahn and Shao Xunmei (1935)
“Being an editor has done something strange to me... Already I am growing stodgy and inclined to admit there are after all two sides to every…
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On the writing style of travelogues (1822)
A traveller is allowed to say: “ I was at New York, thence I embarked for South America, I made my way back as far as Santa-Fe-de-Bogota. The…
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Futuristic vision of Shanghai in 1936
Not the greatest quality image, but here the old meets the new, on the 1936 cover of the China Press: The futuristic building on the right might…
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