1935 Shanghai Maps Still Available

People keep asking m about these so here they are, still with a few left in print.

In 1935, the Shanghai Municipal Council issued a map for visitors to the city. The man they hired to produce it was an American called Carl Crow. Crow collaborated on the map with a White Russian cartographer and artist V.V. Kovalsky. The map was a spectacular success and instantly became a collector’s item and is now extremely rare. For this reason I decided to reproduce the map in a full colour edition.

Crow arrived in Shanghai in 1911 establishing the China Press newspaper. The city was his home for the next 25 years as he worked as a journalist, adman, hostage negotiator, police sergeant, farmer and propagandist. He became a best-selling author, known for his wry, observant and sympathetic portraits of life in Shanghai. Arriving as the Qing Dynasty was collapsing and leaving as the city was being bombed in 1937, he left behind an enduring written legacy of Shanghai between the wars … and this map.

Each map is 20” X 25” (50.8 cm X 63.5 cm), full colour and with a copy of Carl Crow’s signature added.

Maps are available by collection in Shanghai or by post at the following rates:

Currency: Poster, P&P
RMB: 250, 300
HK$: 235, 282
US$: 30, 36
UK: 16, 19

For more details contact Paul French on +86-21-6374-7484 or paul@accessasia.co.uk.

we can deliver for cash in Shanghai

Otherwise it’s cheques on GBP or US$ or, preferably, Paypal