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The site of the First Congress of the Communist Party (1921)

The site of the Communist Party’s First Congress – the row of red-and-black brick shikumen with bright ornamental gateways, on the corner of Xingye and Huangpi Roads – looked quite different back in 1951, when local historians scouted the city in search of Communist landmarks. The rediscovered…

Linda Cooke Johnson

Surprising

(and pleasing)

is the fact that the formidable Linda Cooke Johnson – the author of two indispensable books, Shanghai: From Market Town to Treaty Port, 1074–1858 (1995) and Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China (1993) – started her academic career in Chinese history quite…

Hotel Plaza (1924–1938)

Ebay. This promotional foldout brochure for Shanghai’s Hotel Plaza (once located on the northeast corner of Rue Montauban and Rue du Consulat), was recently on Ebay, discounted (!) to 501 US dollars. Hotel Plaza opened in the early 1920s; it had a…

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