Refugees from the Japanese attacks on northern Shanghai reach the International Settlement, 1938 by Henry D Killingback of HMS Kent

I’ve never come across it anywhere / but i’ve no idea what resources there are in Tianjin libraries?

An ad for L'Echo de Tientsin, the paper of the Tianjin French Concession, 1909. The paper ran from the early 1900s to the 1930s. The English ad for a French paper appeared in an book written by & published by a German. That's your cosmopolitan treaty ports for you!

What do you think it should be?

He may have been unfamiliar with the phrase ‘a turkey voting for Christmas’?

The YMCA (1924) and the Peninsula Hotel (1928), Salisbury Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong photographed by Henry Killingback of HMS Kent 1938/1939. The YMCA was demolished and rebuilt in the 1980s…

Sadly Russian bots just don’t donate!!

HMS Kent arrives in Shanghai along the Huangpu River, 1939. From the collection of Henry D Killingback. A neat photograph as it gives the lie to the popular misconception that there was nothing Pudong-side until the 1990s (I heard this 35 years ago from people) and it was always wrong as you can see

Hallmark Slammed Over "Whitewashed" Cast In New 'Mahjong' Movie Premiering During AAPI Month Hallmark Channel is under fire for casting a mostly white cast in their new film "All's Fair in Love & Mahjong," airing during AAPI Heritage Month.

This looks like a very strange notion of an evenings entertainment…

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Remember Robbins is hardcore Leave, hates Remainers, was May’s Brexit negotiator & previously permanent sec for the Home Office under Cameron. In 2017 he moved from DExEU to be May’s personal Europe Adviser in Cabinet. This is not a nice guy; this is a die hard Tory and Brexiteer who hates Labour

Such tip-top sophisticated types

South side of Chuck-pye-wau bay (Shek Pai Wan/Aberdeen) looking east, 1846, by Murdoch Bruce (1815–1848), a Scottish architect and engineer who worked as an Inspector of Buildings in Hong Kong.

You’re all mad over there!!

Coal Hill, Peking, c.1920s

Map of Tientsin (Tianjin), Peiyang Press, 1928

If you did that in the UK your would get the shit ripped out of you!!!

The geniuses at the Economist showing they have their finger on the pulse as ever

A Peking Cart, c.1920s

A map of Victoria City, Hong Kong Island frlm The Treaty Ports of China and Japan. A Complete guide to the Open Ports of Those Countries, Together with Peking, Yedo, Hong Kong and Macao - Nicholas Belfield Denny - 1867

Grifters gotta grift

Two great Nathalie Baye films…

The five marble bridges in the Forbidden City, Beijing, known as the Inner Golden Water Bridges (内金水桥), span the Inner Golden Water River in front of the Gate of Supreme Harmony, c.1920s

They have no clue

The Great Wall above the Nankow (Nankou) Pass, c.1920s

Ever the Nasty Party and the Liars Party

It’s just blatant gouging - you’d have to be mad to go

The triple pailou (or paifang) in the Summer Palace, Peking, c.1920s

Jack Palance & Aldo Ray in the bar (The Den?) at the HK Hilton, 1966. Built in 1963, the 26-storey hotel designed by Palmer & Turner was initially the only 5-star hotel on HK Island. demolished in 1995 to make way for the Cheung Kong Centre.

Cameron Road, Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong, 1966

Aberdeen Harbour, 1966, from the movie Kill a Dragon (1967)