This is one of the few guides to Old Shanghai in English. It presents Shanghai in the mid-1930s, almost at the height of its development, before the Sino-Japanese war broke out and stifled the city. The cover design is in the familiar contemporaneous 'sexy China girl' style attributed initially to Carl Crow. Carl Crow (1884-1945) was a Missouri-born newspaperman, businessman, and author who managed several newspapers and then opened the first Western advertising agency in Shanghai, China, which he ran for 19 years, creating much of what is thought of today as the sexy China Girl poster and ca
This is one of the few guides to Old Shanghai in English. It presents Shanghai in the mid-1930s, almost at the height of its development, before the Sino-Japanese war broke out and stifled the city. The cover design is in the familiar contemporaneous 'sexy China girl' style attributed initially to Carl Crow. Carl Crow (1884-1945) was a Missouri-born newspaperman, businessman, and author who managed several newspapers and then opened the first Western advertising agency in Shanghai, China, which he ran for 19 years, creating much of what is thought of today as the sexy China Girl poster and calendar advertisements.
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