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Liliane Willens’ Stateless in Shanghai

Stateless in Shanghai is the true story of Dr. Liliane Willens’ experiences growing up as a “stateless person” in cosmopolitan Shanghai from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. Willens was born to Russian Jewish parents, both denationalized by the Soviet Union after fleeing the Bolshevik revolution, hence her “stateless” status refers to her families inability to flee elsewhere

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Princess Der Ling: Two Years in the Forbidden City

Two years in the Forbidden City is largely a reminiscence of the minutiae of life for one of history’s most powerful women, by one of her court attendants, a Manchu noble’s daughter by the name of Der Ling.

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Carl Crow’s The Long Road Back to China

In 1939 Carl Crow – an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese – travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine - ‘the most interesting assignment I have ever been given’.

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Earnshaw Books’ Tales of Old Peking

Tales from Old Peking is available from Earnshaw Books, and like its sister, Tales from Old Shanghai is a book of fragments of information about periods, events or places in Beijing’s history, collaging together pictures and text about eunuchs, concubines, the Lama Temple, Opium Wars, art, emperors, and a miscellany of other interesting topics.

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Henry F. Pringle’s “Bridge House Survivor”

Pringle was imprisoned by Japanese forces from October 1942 to August 1945, and Bridge House Survivor, available from Earnshaw Books, is his harrowing account of torture under the Japanese.

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George Morrison’s An Australian in China

George Morrison, before he became the London Times’ megalomaniacal correspondent in 1897, was an adventurer and explorer. His arrival in China is documented in this book.

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All About Shanghai and Clubs & Associations

All About Shanghai from Earnshaw Books is a tour into the Shanghai of 1934 - 1935. Old Shanghai Clubs & Associations is an impressive catalog of 1840s to the 1950s rich clubs for foreigners.

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Tales of Old Shanghai by Graham Earnshaw

“A scrapbook of words and images bringing to life the glorious past of China’s greatest city” says the jacket. Available from Earnshaw Books.

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Shanghai’s Schemozzle by Sapajou

A series of cartoons crafted by Russian Army Lieutenant-turned-cartoonist Georgii Avksent’ievich Sapojnikoff, who also went under the artistic alias of Sapajou. He published cartoons for over 15 years in the North-China Daily News.

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