During my last visit to NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) in Washington D.C. — in fact the facility located at College Park, Maryland —I had planned to re-visit the Consular Trade Report series....
At long last ! This item has been missing for a long time on the Virtual Shanghai platform. Here it is now ! Users will now find a “user’s guide” (see the right hand...
In the course of their work, many scholars collect, compile, and process quantitative data. It may just be a small table listing the price of rice over a few years or large sets of...
Virtual Shanghai just released a new set of 17 beautiful pictures of the Shanghai Bund and commercial streets (1936-37). These pictures were taken by Claude Berruyer, a mechanic with the French Navy during his...
The Virtual Shanghai platform is now home to a new project on contemporary Shanghai — 21th century Shanghai — by the Ecole nationale d’architecture-Paris-Belleville (ENA-PB) and one of its research centers IPRAUS. The management...
BN-IAO has just released is the second installment of documents digitized in Shanghai with the collaboration of the Institute of History of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. This installment includes two essential sets,...
As part of a collaboration between the Institut d’Asie Orientale and the Institute of History (历史研究所) of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (上海社会科学院), the Virtual Shanghai Project is making available a set of...
Virtual Shanghai has recently posted two new resources for scholars and students who very often face many complexities when dealing with proper names and various designations of people, companies, institutions, etc. To help with...
A whole new series of maps is now available on the Virtual Shanghai platform (see Maps – eAtlas) on the evolution of Shanghai industries during the early years of the war with Japan (1937-1945). ...
Histoire de la Concession française de Changhai by Ch.-B. Maybon and Jean Fredet was published by Plon in 1929. This book represents a reference for the history of the French Concession in Shanghai. It...
