Pamela Werner, 1917–8/1/1937, Peking, China…

Pamela Werner, 1917–8/1/1937, Peking, China…

Japanese Forces Post in Mongolia, China & Taiwan, 1938

JAPANESE FORCES IN MONGOLIA, CHINA & TAIWAN; Range with 1936 plain censored unfranked PC to Tokyo from the inner Mongolian Expedition, 1938 env. (and contents) to Japan from the Shanghai Special Land Combat Forces with 1st Naval FPO marking on front, Jan. 1939 2s Japanese military PC to Japan from the Tanan Okamoto Force in Taiwan and a few others…

Shanghai 1865 Dragon Stamp

Early treaty port era stamps look very basic, but interesting. For instance this c.1865 stamp issued by Shanghai LPO (Local Post Office) and valued for 8 Candareens (a traditional measurement equal to approximately 378 milligrams). And with a dragon motif.

Nicky Almasy’s Recycling Reality – Out Jan 2023 – Remembering Jazz & Skyscrapers in Early 21st Century Shanghai

Out this month is photographer Nicky Almasy’s tavelogue-cum-memoirs, Recycling Reality, of roaming through 90s and ewarly 2000s London, Mexico, SE Asia and Shanghai. For anyone around in the late 1990s and early 2000s in Shanghai Nicky’s essays and experiences of the renaissance of jazz in ther French Concession and the skysraper boom in Pudong will be of interest. Click here to buy….

Wang Hing Shanghai Silversmiths

I’ve posted about half a dozen other silversmiths in Shanghai in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries before (just put ‘silversmith’ in the search box to see). Here’s another – Wang Hing, of Hong Kong (most of the silversmiths in Shanghai were originally from Cantonese speaking regions of China) and Shanghai, again largely targeting the Shanghailander and tourist trade.

Here, a Chinese Silver Scent Bottle and hinged gilt lined box decorated with embossed dragons, scent c. 10cm tall and box 9x4cm, stamped WH90 for Wang Hing of Hong Kong and Shanghai, 172g.

Three piece Chinese silver tea service comprising of teapot, sugar bowl &
cream jug with embossed prunus decoration

My Ten China-Britain Business Council Author Q&As for 2022

My ten China book author Q&As for the China-Britain Business Council’s Focus magazine last year – from business to travel; history to literature….click here…

Wartime Shanghai Yuefenpai

A believed original WWII Second World War Chinese / Shanghai War advertising poster (yuefenpai) featuring a pilot in a plane with a welcoming young lady holding flowers. Measures approx 52x80cm.

Selected Cantonese Publications by Western Missionaries in China (1828-1927)

I’m not a great one for missionaries bit their role in the formation of the early foreign press in Southern China is undeniable...This new book is a useful source and there’s an article on it here….

The Cantonese people have a tradition of incorporating spoken Cantonese into their literature, but what is less well known is that in the 19th century, Western missionaries compiled Cantonese dictionaries and textbooks in order to help missionaries to master the Cantonese language, and also translated Bibles, hymns, gospel novels, and wrote catechisms and Sunday school textbooks in Cantonese to help Cantonese people to understand Christianity. This book contains a selection of Cantonese works by missionaries during the period from 1828 to 1927, introducing the authors and their works as well as the linguistic features of Cantonese of the time. In the appendices, the total of 278 Cantonese works by missionaries were listed, which will give the reader an insight into their unique writings.