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Posts from This Journal “1930s” Tag

• Vox, the ‘child’ of Emily Hahn and Shao Xunmei (1935)

  “Being an editor has done something strange to me... Already I am growing stodgy and inclined to admit there are after all two sides to every…

• On the writing style of travelogues (1822)

  A traveller is allowed to say: “ I was at New York, thence I embarked for South America, I made my way back as far as Santa-Fe-de-Bogota. The…

• Futuristic vision of Shanghai in 1936

  Not the greatest quality image, but here the old meets the new, on the 1936 cover of the China Press: The futuristic building on the right might…