Shanghai of To-day, 1927

A lovely copy of Shanghai of To-day (yes, they hyphenated it), published in 1927 as a souveneir of 38 plates of photographs of the International Settlement. Published by the great Shanghai, Singapore and Hong Kong publishing house Kelly & Walsh.

It also included an introduction by OM Green, then the editor of the North-China Daily News. Green was perhaps the paper’s most strident and opinionated (some would say hardline) leader in its history andwas to serve as editor through to 1930 and remain active in writing about China until after the Second World War. Green was a forceful apologist for the British position in Shanghai and continued his advocacy of British superiority long after he left the paper and the city.