Historic Pudong
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The often overlooked side of Shanghai by a 23-year resident. Coverage includes everything east of the Huangpu River.
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3 anonymous oils (the middle one appears to be possibly a Portuguese artist) c.1840s Anglo-Chinese School paintings of what appears to be early Hong Kong scenes…
Show PostIn a quiet, secluded corner of Pudong, there’s a marker commemorating a north-south canal dating from the Ming dynasty that once played a vital part in the local economy. 🧵 #historicshanghai
Show PostThe Peking Observstory photographed in 1910 & so missing several instruments looted by Germany in the aftermath of the Boxer Uprising (& taken to the gardens at Sanssouci in Potsdam & the Orangerieschloss nearby) that were eventually returned in the 1920s after the Treaty of Versailles.
Show PostJack Brown in China: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Herbert Strang (also pub as Brown of Moukden) 1933 is a YA ‘imperial fiction’ with a plucky Brit at the centre set against the backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905). Brown is an Englishman in Shenyang who gets caught up in the war.
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