A stroll through the archives with Eric Politzer.

Eric Politzer studied history at the University of Minnesota and Nankai University in Tientsin. He lives in Brooklyn, New York and is writing a book about the Shanghai Bund. In the course of plowing through decades of the North-China Herald he has come across a great deal of material redolent of its time and place, and takes pleasure in sharing it.

  • The Chinese Mind - Arthur Ransome
  • Shanghai society? Snobbish? 1915
  • Sir Chaloner Alabaster
  • Wedding of Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling
  • A Trip in Pootung 1900
  • The Old Pootung Cemetery 1917
  • Chinese mixed marriages
  • Public Garden
  • Steam laundry debate - 1900