The Early Shanghai Photographs of Pierre Gendron
Sometime between the 1880s and early 1900s, a Frenchman named Pierre Gendron photographed Shanghai. And miraculously, his glass stereoscopic slides, some of the earliest photographs of Shanghai in existence, have survived. As a banker based in Hué (which was then French Indochina), Pierre traveled throughout the region—to ...
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Stray Birds on the Huangpu: A History of Indians in Old Shanghai
The image of the turbanned Sikh policeman, hong tou ah-san to generations of Chinese, remains the popular image of Indians in old Shanghai. But the reality that editors Mishi Saran and Dr. Zhang Ke unveil in their new bilingual anthology, Stray Birds on the Huangpu: A History of Indians in Shanghai (Shanghai People’s Fine ...
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Sikhs in Shanghai
From the word "Bund" to Bombay millionaires and Parsi merchants, Indians were a presence in Old Shanghai since the beginning. Our "Indians in Old Shanghai" walk this Saturday will cover the traces and places of this diverse, vibrant Indian community, but here, guest blogger Meena Vathyam shares the story of the most visible ...
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