"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.
Dancing in Shanghai (1922)
"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.
Posts from This Journal “nightlife” Tag
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The Gardenia cabaret – two views
It was exciting to find this view of Alexander Vertinsky's Gardenia cabaret (кабаре "Гардения"), which operated between April and…
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A shrimper, a cook and an astronomer (1889)
British, Russian and Japanese Legations in Peking's Legation Quarter. Image: Getty. Here is what the foreign society wore at a costume…
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Ancient Photoshop (aka Trick Pictorial), 1929
Competing against the world Does Shanghai realize the difficulty, the origination, and the time of trick pictorial work such as this? Here is a…
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Canteens, cafes and cabarets: the food culture of the Russian diaspora in Shanghai
My chapter on the Russian food culture in Shanghai in the 2019 book Food Heritage and Nationalism in Europe – read or download here. In…
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#152 Shanghai Architecture Series (in Russian): Bubbling Well Apartments 平安大楼
The article in Russian: https://magazeta.com/arc-federal/ I wrote about the building and its famous establishments in this entry.
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Shanghai Dancing (1926)
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…
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