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: Katya Knyazeva (avezink) wrote,
2019-10-04 07:27:00

Katya Knyazeva
avezink
2019-10-04 07:27:00

A handy guide to navigating the Shanghai Municipal Archives

https://wp.nyu.edu/habsburgiainchina/how-to-navigate-in-the-shanghai-municipal-archives-a-guide-based-on-my-experiences/
Penned by Mátyás Mervay.

I only used the SMA once, when it was still in the Great Northern Telegraph building – not the original one on the Bund, but the 1921 one around the corner on Yan'an Road. Now the SMA is housed in the former Messageries Maritimes headquarters.

Tags: 2019, archive, messageries maritimes, shanghai

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