I A STD 33 Lecture 3: EAS-1/14
14 Jan 2019
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After bolshevik revolution many russians fled to shanghai to escape communism. Mix of old buildings and new buildings in modern shanghai plus a disneyland. Paris of the east, new york of the west . 3. 1 million population in 1933, 70,000 were foreigners. Light, heat, power was the city"s motto. Separate worlds, lifestyles for foreigners and chinese, even when they lived in mixed company. British consulate, palace hotel, shanghai club, hong kong shanghai bank (1923) Hksb was second largest bank in the world now is hsbc. Foreigners lived in apartment buildings called mansions. Chinese lived in alley compounds, alley courtyards. Pavilion room: room upstairs in passageway between front/back sections of shanghai townhouse, usually above kitchen. Cheap rent shared by 2-3 men for less than 4 yuan a month. Competition on nanking road among big four. Xianshi, yong"an, xinxin, daxin were the big four. Sign at park in international settlement supposedly said : no chinese or dogs allowed .
