The Chungking Directory, 1944

My thanks to Paul Midler (of the entertaining Poorly Made in China) for images of this copy of the rare Chungking Directory, the wartime guide to the who, what, where of the Chinese capital…. particularly interesting are the number of foreigners registered in the city in 1943 during the war (as detailed below including a category for “White Russian”) and one solitary “stateless” person (apparently the White Russians were not considered stateless in WW2 Chungking). Compare those growing numbers of allied nationals to 1939, which included the Germans (all gone by 1943)…..