SHANGHAI.

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Information for Travellers Landing at Shanghai. The 1914 instalment of this rare tourist guide, complete with the folding map showing the city's newly constructed tram lines. The guide also introduces the nearby scenic spots of Hangzhou and Suzhou and outlines specimen itineraries for travel across China and East Asia utilizing the expanding railway network.Twenty pages of advertisements offer a snapshot of Shanghai in its early post-imperial years. Visitors are asked to patronize Nanjing's Bridge House Hotel, "the most comfortable and up-to-date hotel on the Yangtze", the famous fine dining room in the Palace Hotel near the Shanghai landing stages, and the photography services offered by the A. S. Watson & Co. Three blank pages at the end provide space for memoranda.

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