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Room 302, The Astor House Hotel, Shanghai

Posted: July 22nd, 2017 | No Comments »

Last week I blogged about the sad tale of Marshal Smith Hairston who, distraught at the loss of a child, committed suicide in room 302 of Shanghai’s Astor House Hotel in July 1936…courtesy of a China Rhyming regular reader, here is room 302 at the Astor – I can’t be sure they haven’t played around with the room numbers since 1936 but anyway…

 



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