A Douglas Dolphin over Shanghai 1934. If this doesn't give you a seance of intrigue in the Golden Age, nothing will!
A Douglas Dolphin over Shanghai 1934. If this doesn't give you a seance of intrigue in the Golden Age, nothing will!
A familiar sight in the Huangpu River were the USS Augusta (CL-31), flagship of the Asiatic Fleet and its counterpart/nemesis IJN Izumo, flagship of the IJN's China Area Fleet.
USS Augusta
The "Augie Maru" arrived on station as flagship of the Asiatic Fleet in 1933 under the command of one Capt. Chester W. Nimitz.
IJN Izumo
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The articles in Foreign Affairs are generally of higher quality, but Foreign Policy has a better (and more fun website) and I give them credit for being innovative. Though they do turn out a fair bit of fluff pieces. However, Survival is my favorite of general readership IR/Security journals. I always joke with my students Survival is what Foreign Affairs should beOriginally Posted by jlee562
Awesome, though I'm a Foreign Affairs guy myself. Although they don't have photo essays!
One of those rare moments I actually talk about work on the forumYou are a SAIS grad right?
On another note Foreign Policy has run several of these historical photo essays in the past. They had a great one on Kabul back in the 1950s and 60s and it was fun to see photos of Afghan college girls with bobbie sox and bouffant hair dos.
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"As a kid, I used to abide by the judgment of Brooks Brothers in New York. I think I'm away from that now."
-Fred Astaire
As featured in Gold Diggers of 1933 or Footlght Parade? Cagney or Powell? Cagney looks better with a Chicago Piano than in dancing shoes.
I have a big bunch of National Geographic from the 1930s to wars end. Some great features on the far east.
Must be Footlight Parade with Cagney. Great movie.
Thats the one with the water ballet, da da da da daaaaa were calling You hoo hoo hoooo. My favourite Busby Berkley scene, well, equal to Carmen Miranda's Tootie Fruty hat.
Oh, and Shanghai Lil was played by? Ruby keeler, surly not.
From Here to Shanghai.
When listening to this, remember that it IS nearly 100 years old, so don't get too offended.
Ching Ling Foo (mentioned halfway through the song) was a Chinese magician (died 1922).
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...Where did you get that hat, where did you get that tile? Isn't it a nobby one and just the proper style! I should like to have one just the same as that. Whereever I go they'd shout "hello, where did you get that hat?..."
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Then of course there is "Sing-Ling-Foo". "Chinese" Ragtime!
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