1935 Travel Advice to the China

A big thank you to the travel correspondent of the Chicago Tribune in 1935 who advised the following…

The “Native City” is what is now generally referred to as “old town” (or Nantao, or a variant). It is less of a shock these days unless, of course, you are a lover of traditional Chinese architecture, treaty port architecture or historical preservation in general in which case its destruction is so shocking as to make you lie down and weep….