A Big Ben with Chinese characteristics: the Customs House as urban icon in Old and New Shanghai
WASSERSTROM, JEFFREY N.; WASSERSTROM JEFFREY N.; University of California
Журнал:
Urban History
Дата:
2006
Аннотация:
A huge clock, made at Whitechurch by Messrs. J. B. Joyce and Co … has been sent to Shanghai, for the new Chinese Maritime Customs House. The clock, weighing nearly 30 tons, will probably be the Big Ben of the Far East.
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