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We are pleased to announce the release of our collection of archives from the Department of State on political relations between China and Japan from 1933 to 1944. The collection is accessible in searchable...
We are pleased to invite you to the “Habiller la Ville” webinar which will take place on Tuesday, November 3, 2020 from 4.30 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. on the theme: “Equiper sans encombrer :...
We are pleased to announce the release of our collection of Shanghai Municipal Police archives in searchable text format on Bibliothèque Numérique Asiatique [Asia Digital Library]. The original collection of microfilms was purchased from...
The text that follows was written for the “Bluebook on Chinese studies” currently under compilation by the GIS Asie at the request of the Ministry of Research in France. It is meant to serve...
The history of Shanghai during wartime has too often been written on the before/after mode, with a strong propensity to simplify the political and military configurations that prevailed at different times during the war....
The population of Shanghai (1865-1953) will soon be available at Brill. After three rounds of proof editing and correcting — Brill is very thorough in its editorial process — the manuscript is now in...
In the recent weeks, the users of the Virtual Shanghai platform may have noticed a substantial upsurge of the Data section. This section is meant to provide historical statistical data in the form of...
Ordinary professional commercial photographers tend to leave few traces behind them. Unlike a Robert Capa or a Henri Cartier-Bresson who became famous worldwide for their artistic or field photographs, they easily fall into oblivion...
Entreprises et Histoire, a French academic journal devoted to business and economic history, features in its last issue a review of Cécile Armand’s doctoral dissertation “‘Placing the History of Advertising’. A spatial history of...
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....