Papers of Old Shanghai: Social Shanghai, 1906-1912 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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Social Shanghai was a magazine founded by Mina Shorrock in Shanghai in early 1906. It began as a monthly publication for “ladies” and expanded over time to cover all aspects of social life in Shanghai and other Chinese treaty ports, including fashions, sports and recreation, weddings, gardening, home furnishings, school education, infrastructure, travels, municipal council departments, shows and exhibitions, literature, book reviews, music, and personal sketches. It was the first foreign-language magazine published in China that reproduced substantially photographs in its pages. This collection consists of 34 issues included in volumes 2-14, published during 1906–1912.


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