Streets of Shanghai

A guide to Shanghai in the 1920s

 Above: Garden Park, the Bund

Welcome to Shanghai

Historical Timeline

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. I also apologise for the rather primitive layout, but I fear that if I were to unleash my full layout design abilities, the result would be so awesome your whole body would fall off.

This site is a work in progress. I am still fiddling around with write-ups of the various geographical areas of town, the racecourse, Communists, notable personalities and all that jazz. Also an article on jazz.

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