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“They rewrote my name from Cyrillic... and from Hugyecz it became Hudec”
A documentary on Hudec with a lot of exclusive homemade footage. There is even a moving image of the Normandie Apartments, from different angles - a rarity, indeed!
The Man who Built Shanghai - Réka Pigniczky
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Shanghai in 1976
The sweetly positive commentary makes the 1970s seem like an innocent era, “poor together, rich together.” As if the flamboyant fashions of the 1930s just naturally gave way to the trend of wearing somber blue cotton...
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The site of the First Congress of the Communist Party (1921)
The site of the Communist Party’s First Congress - the row of red-and-black brick shikumen with bright ornamental gateways, on the corner of Xingye and Huangpi Roads - looked quite different back in 1951, when local historians scouted the city in search of Communist landmarks. The rediscovered building was then a combination of a sauce-and-pickle ( Read more... )
