900 new old photographs of Shanghai; exciting!

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• Nine minutes of bustling Shanghai in the 1930s and 1940s

  A total of nine minutes of well-staged shots, showing Shanghai's bustling waterfront and city streets. The film is dated by 1947 (probably…

• New upload: Hi-res aerial map of central Shanghai (1948)

  For anyone who uses historic aerial maps of Shanghai at Tianditu 天地图, the restriction on zooming in to the maximum level is irritating. So I…

• Hong Kong and Far East Builder magazine online

  This excellent online archive of the architecture magazine Hong Kong and Far East Builder (1941–1964) has a ton of interesting articles…