Her Lotus Year: Wallis at the Palace, November 1924

Posted: November 3rd, 2024 | No Comments »

Wallis arrived in Shanghai in November 1924, staying at the Palace Hotel on the Bund. Her time there is often framed exclusively as one of dancing, cabarets, parties, shopping (on Nanking Road, below in the 1920s) and, of course, horse racing. And all that happened. But Wallis also witnessed the horrific casulties from the ongoing Kiangsu-Chekiang (Jiangsu-Zhejiang) War just outside the International Settlement and saw the crates of arms and ammunition being shippsd to the warlords marked “Made in Germany” and “Made in Great Britain”….it was a time of new independence for Wallis, but also one of a growing realisation of the warlord chaos across China….

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