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Streets of Shanghai

A guide to Shanghai in the 1920s

Above: Garden Park, the Bund

Welcome to Shanghai

Historical Timeline

Culture

The Americans

The British

The Chinese

The French

The Japanese

The White Russians

Foot binding

Foreign Views of China

Freemasonry

Communism

Life

Architecture and Housing

The city streets

Lower class entertainment

Law

Labour unrest

Shanghai Municipal Police

William Fairbairn and the Reserve Unit

Espionage

Crime

Green Gang

Opium

Vice

Individuals

Du Yuesheng -- Green Gang kingpin

Fairbairn, William (see "Law")

Huang Jinrong -- gangster boss and police chief

Litvanoff, Victoria -- blackmailer, madam and clairvoyant

A note on romanisation: I toyed with using modern pinyin romanisation for Chinese words and names, but it looked weird. Instead, I've chosen to romanise things as they would have been at the time, which is to say inconsistently. Hopefully that won't be too annoying.

This site is a work in a state of perpetual incompleteness.

For any specific queries or new information you would like to add, please contact me via the wiki or on Twitter @PorcupineRPG

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