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Peter Max Back in Shanghai

Posted: October 15th, 2012 | No Comments »

I’ve noted the Shanghai childhood of the great artist Peter Max previously. But I read that he recently visited Shanghai in search of his old nanny and visited his old childhood haunts on Hongkou and the former Jewish ghetto. Details on his visit, reminiscences of old Shanghai and thoughts on the city today here.

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As someone who divides his time pretty evenly writing about China now and China back then this seemed like a place to throw all the interesting bits that fall through the cracks somehow and never get used anywhere else. It's basically the stuff that doesn't get used in my writing about modern China or in the books I do about old China — i.e. probably of little interest to anyone but me and therefore ideally suited to an obscure blog up a dark cul-de-sac of the Internet - Paul French

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Peter Max Back in Shanghai

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