
"What is it you're dancing, Katya? – It's foxtrot, mommy. – Where did you study, Katya? – In the Carlton, mommy." Cartoon in the Russian Echo newspaper, Shanghai, October 1922.
It was exciting to find this view of Alexander Vertinsky's Gardenia cabaret (кабаре "Гардения"), which operated between April and…
British, Russian and Japanese Legations in Peking's Legation Quarter. Image: Getty. Here is what the foreign society wore at a costume…
Competing against the world Does Shanghai realize the difficulty, the origination, and the time of trick pictorial work such as this? Here is a…
My chapter on the Russian food culture in Shanghai in the 2019 book Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe – read or download here. In…
The article in Russian: https://magazeta.com/arc-federal/ I wrote about the building and its famous establishments in this entry.
There is this famous image of a Shanghai dance café in the 1920s: This morning, as I was having my morning coffee and reading my fresh…