A delightfully - illustrated book that embraces Shanghai proper in almost every form.
It commences with a concise history of Shanghai and proceeds through 83 pages of illustrations, amusingly clever sketches in a riot of pia colour, by Schiff, photographs in sepia and text dealing with trade, imports, exports, population, hotels, nous papers, exchange shops, traffic, temples, Chinese food, places of interest, beggars, funerals, public health, etc., ending with the Cycle of the Twelve Terrestrial Branches and Chinese Zodiac.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.