Bruno Lessing on Shanghai, 1934 – A Serious Trashing of the Town…

Posted: July 15th, 2022 | No Comments »

Bruno Lessing was the pen name of Rudolph Edgar Block (1870-1940), an American journalist, columnist, and author. An avid traveler, Block wrote about his experiences in the daily newspaper column “Vagabondia”, which was published from 1928 through 1939. And here is his rather negative view of his visit to Shanghai in 1934 – you can judge for yourselves what might be fair and what not….

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