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Posts from This Journal “1900s” Tag

• Xu Guangqi family ancestral hall, 100+ years apart

  徐氏祠堂 光启南路250弄6号 // No. 6 Lane 250 South Guangqi Road 2021: 1900s: More historic and contemporary photos – on Shanghai Old Town…

• Shanghai on film (1901)

  This dreamy video is making rounds in Shanghai-loving circles. Western women in corsets and wide-legged trousers riding on bicycles are quite…

• Book on Russia-China border relations in history

  Victor Zatsepine, Beyond the Amur: Frontier Encounters between China and Russia, 1850–1930 (2018). A supremely lucid take on a rather complex…