New glossaries on Virtual Shanghai
Virtual Shanghai has recently posted two new resources for scholars and students who very often face many complexities when dealing with proper names and various designations of people, companies,...
View ArticleThe annual reports of the Municipal Council of the French Concession on line
As part of a collaboration between the Institut d’Asie Orientale and the Institute of History (历史研究所) of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (上海社会科学院), the Virtual Shanghai Project is making...
View ArticleShanghai Municipal Reports and Minutes on line
BN-IAO has just released is the second installment of documents digitized in Shanghai with the collaboration of the Institute of History of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. This installment...
View ArticleXXIth Century Shanghai: an IPRAUS–ENA-PB Project
The Virtual Shanghai platform is now home to a new project on contemporary Shanghai — 21th century Shanghai — by the Ecole nationale d’architecture-Paris-Belleville (ENA-PB) and one of its research...
View ArticleData (sleeping data, hidden data, etc.)
In the course of their work, many scholars collect, compile, and process quantitative data. It may just be a small table listing the price of rice over a few years or large sets of figures extracted...
View ArticleVirtual Shanghai: User’s guide
At long last ! This item has been missing for a long time on the Virtual Shanghai platform. Here it is now ! Users will now find a “user’s guide” (see the right hand side menu) that explains the...
View ArticleNARA – Bureau of foreign and domestic commerce
During my last visit to NARA (National Archives and Records Administration) in Washington D.C. — in fact the facility located at College Park, Maryland —I had planned to re-visit the Consular Trade...
View ArticleThe population of Shanghai in figures (1865-1953)
In the recent weeks, the users of the Virtual Shanghai platform may have noticed a substantial upsurge of the Data section. This section is meant to provide historical statistical data in the form of...
View ArticleNew release of Shanghai photographs
Virtual Shanghai just released a new set of 17 beautiful pictures of the Shanghai Bund and commercial streets (1936-37). These pictures were taken by Claude Berruyer, a mechanic with the French Navy...
View ArticleUpcoming book!
The population of Shanghai (1865-1953) will soon be available at Brill. After three rounds of proof editing and correcting — Brill is very thorough in its editorial process — the manuscript is now in...
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