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Garden Bridge « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. Boy on the Garden Bridge. Historic Shanghai’s Best Books of 2015. Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Joan’s Shanghai Blog. Follow us on Twitter! Historic Shanghai on YouTube. The video cannot be shown. Your web browser does not support iFrames. Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook! Like us on Facebook! Subscribe to our mailing list.
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World Congress on Art Deco® 2015 « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. World Congress on Art Deco 2015. Art Deco is Shanghai’s signature style, and we’re big fans. In 2009, Historic Shanghai joined the International Coalition of Art Deco Societies. ICADS), and in 2011, we attended the World Congress on Art Deco. In Rio de Janeiro and successfully bid for the privilege of hosting the World Congress in Shanghai from November 2-6, 2015. For more on the history of the World Congress, click here. Shanghai, November 1*-6, 2015. At the Fairmont Peace Hotel.
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THE INTERVIEW: Lives in the Longtangs with Jie Li « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. THE INTERVIEW: Lives in the Longtangs with Jie Li. Jie Li, author of. Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life. Has a unique insight into the lives within the longtangs: this is where her parents and grandparents lived, and where she spent her childhood. On December 6,. Historic Shanghai: What’s the backstory: how did you come to write about the two particular alleyways featured in the book? Gossip, title of the book’s third chapter, best summarizes my interview approach.
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Flood « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. Flood, 1941. Photo courtesy of Virtual Shanghai. Horse on the Bund. Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Joan’s Shanghai Blog. Follow us on Twitter! Historic Shanghai on YouTube. The video cannot be shown. Your web browser does not support iFrames. Follow us on Twitter! Like us on Facebook! Like us on Facebook! Subscribe to our mailing list.
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Historic Shanghai’s Best Books, 2014 « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. Historic Shanghai’s Best Books, 2014. Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life. Available on Amazon and at the Shanghai Foreign Languages Bookstore, 390 Fuzhou Road. Among the Celestials: China in Early Photographs. By Ferdinand M. Bertholet, Regine Thiriez, Lambert van der Aalsvoort. Photography’s growth in the mid-19. Century coincided with the growth of interest in China. The Cat with the Telltale Tattoo. Constable Khang’s Mysteries of Old Shanghai. Century, to the first Ch...
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Horse on the Bund « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. Horse on the Bund. Horse carriage on the Bund, c. 1910-1913. Photo courtesy of Virtual Shanghai. THE INTERVIEW: Patricia Luce Chapman – An American Girl in Wartime Shanghai. Click here to cancel reply. Mail (will not be published) (required). Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Notify me of new posts by email. Joan’s Shanghai Blog. Follow us on Twitter! Historic Shanghai on YouTube. The video cannot be shown. Your web browser does not support iFrames. Follow us on Twitter!
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Columbia Country Club « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. The Columbia Country Club, 1939. The Columbia Country Club, today. This club for Americans was designed by Shanghai’s pre-eminent American architect, Elliott Hazzard. His timeless Spanish Revival buildings stood on five acres with two fields, with tennis, outdoor swimming, bowling, ping pong, and baseball. Located at 301 Great Western Road (now West Yan’an Road) it was some distance from downtown: This country club is really in the country, declared the. Patricia Luce Chapman,.
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Membership « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. Membership has its privileges…. Single Annual Membership: RMB 500/year. Partner Annual Membership: RMB900/year for couples. Validity: 12 months from receipt of annual membership fee. Discounted membership prices for Historic Shanghai events. Priority booking for open events. Admission to members-only events. Please complete the Membership-2016. Form and email it to info@historic-shanghai.com. The membership fee can be paid online by clicking here. Joan’s Shanghai Blog.
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British Royals & Shanghai « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. British Royals & Shanghai. Visiting Shanghai this week, we thought it was an opportune moment to look back at royal visits to Shanghai in history. It didn’t start off auspiciously …. Prince William meeting with students at Nanyang Secondary School in Shanghai. Tried to get the ball rolling in 1596 with a letter to Ming Emperor Shen Zong. Sent an emissary to the Court of the Qianlong Emperor. The Qianlong Emperor: Giuseppe Castiglione, Palace Museum. The coronation of George V at ...
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THE INTERVIEW: Patricia Luce Chapman – An American Girl in Wartime Shanghai « Historic Shanghai
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Writers & Photographers. THE INTERVIEW: Patricia Luce Chapman – An American Girl in Wartime Shanghai. Patricia Luce Chapman, the author of. Tea on the Great Wall: An American Girl in War-Torn China. Tea on the Great Wall i. S available in Shanghai at Garden Books. In a Kindle edition. You’ve described your girlhood as “Shirley Temple in Wonderland meets Nazis, Japanese bayonets and Chinese opium addicts”. Your Shanghai was a complicated one! My mother came to Shanghai in 1922 to be a teacher at the McTei...