Shanghai and the holocaust
Jewish communities have existed in China for at least a thousand years, since they arrived as traders along the silk road. The European explorer Marco Polo, visiting Beijing in the […]
Monthly Archives: June 2016
A visit to the museum of propaganda posters in Shanghai
I have never been very keen on Maoist poster art – not even in the period of my life when I was attracted to Maoism – and I probably would […]
The two golden ages of Shanghai
First impressions linger, maybe longer than they should. I arrived in Shanghai late on a rainy night. People were scurrying about with umbrellas and flapping raincoats. Here and there a […]
A worker at large 