SHANGHAI.

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Shanghai jiedao menpai xintu ("A New Street Atlas of Shanghai"). First edition, issued in February 1949, only three months before Shanghai fell to communist forces. This pocket guide includes plans of principal districts, beginning with the former concessionary areas, as well as diagrams of bus and tram routes and the railway line from the city to the Republican capital of Nanjing (itself to fall within two months).Reflecting changing political winds, a contemporary hand has struck through the part of the colophon referencing the year of publication ("Year 38 of the Chinese Republic").

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