Shanghai's Schemozzle
By: Georgii Avksentievich Sapojnikoff (Sapajou)
ISBN: 978-988-17149-5-4
Language: English
Pages: 168 pgs
Pub Date: October 2007
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A classic of old Shanghai, first published in 1937 and featuring a host of superb and rarely seen Sapajou cartoons. Lovingly reproduced with volumes 1 and 2 together and a foreword by China scholar Richard Rigby. Nowhere has Shanghai’s gold age of the 1920s and 1930s been better illustrated than in the drawings of Sapajou, and Shanghai’s Schemozzle includes some of the best of his work.
“Rescued from obscurity, this wonderful book allows you to relive a moment in history in a way that is so vivid. You can almost smell the Old Shanghai in these pages.” - Peter Hibbard, author of The Bund Shanghai: China Faces West |
Who is Sapajou?
Sapajou was the artistic nom-de-plume of Georgii Avksentievich Sapojnikoff, a former lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Army. In the early 1920s, like so many of his compatriots, he came to Shanghai and joined the North China Daily News as a cartoonist in 1925. His drawings were published daily by the paper for fifteen years. His died soon after the fall of Shanghai to the communists in 1949, while in a refugee facility in Manila.
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