Dancing in Shanghai (1922)

Posts from This Journal “nightlife” Tag

• Blood Alley, day and night (1930s)

  View of Blood Alley from Avenue Edward VII toward Rue du Consulat. We see the signs for Royal Café, Crystal, Fantasio Café, Laci; there…

• Recreating Saint Petersburg's nightlife in Constantinople (1920)

  "...At the edge of the city, almost outside of it, there was a suburb intersected by a long street called Şişli, and this is where a…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…

• 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…