Monthly Archive: May 2010
As part of a five-episode documentary film on “The Bund”, actually on the modern history of Shanghai, the China Central Newsreel & Documentary Studio (中央新聞紀錄電影製片廠) has been conducting interviews with Chinese and foreign scholars....
In its own terms, the UKHO “is part of the Ministry of Defence. Its mission is to meet national, defence and civil requirements for navigational and other hydrographic information in the most efficient manner....
The oldest known map of the British Settlement at Shanghai is an 1855 map representing the basic street layout, cadastral lots and even buildings. This rare map can be found at the U.K. National...
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...