The Bund

That's a n- that's another category.

Uh, and, you know, you have to go and tell a story, right? Uh, you've got, you know, if you're, if you're passing through, uh, I'm, I'm just, I'm on the Bund here in, in Shanghai at the moment.

You have to make an impact in, in a shop window in a space that's, what, three meters by two meters, and, and you're passing in a vehicle at 60 kilometers an hour.

I think that that's something I could do 'cause that's about telling a story.

Absolutely.

And just before we let you go, you, you mentioned you're on the Bund, and I know that there are a lot of very visually exciting elements around you.

I wonder if you'd just give us a little flavor of that.

that.A little flavor.

Domestic and international visitors say the performances have helped to showcase Chinese culture.

Organizers have extended the performances from fixed venues to streets along the Bund.

A weekly intangible heritage market will also feature handicrafts, folk performances, and local specialties.

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There is a view that if, through the reforms of the years 1860 to 1863, the Pale of Settlement had been abolished, our whole history would have unfolded otherwise.

If Alexander II had abolished the Pale of Settlement, there would have been neither the Bund nor Trotskyism.

Then he mentioned the internationalist and socialist idea that flowed from the West and wrote, If the suppression of the Pale of Settlement had been of capital importance to them, all their struggle would have reached towards it.

Now they were occupied with everything else.

Here and there, however, things advanced with the aid of socialist pamphlets and proclamations provided by the printing press in London.

The young revolutionaries themselves drafted social democrat formulations on all programmatic questions.

Thus, for ten years, a slow propaganda led little by little to the creation of the Bund."

Well, the Jews, the, the older Jews didn't like this, not because of the ideology, not even because of the violence, but because, you know, the Russian population then was almost the total opposite of your typical American, uh, today.

So it's still quite early on.

And I remember staying in the Peace Hotel on the Bund.

So for listeners, just to give you some context, Shanghai has different districts and this one area along the river, the Huangpu River is called the Bund.

And it is supposed to be a mirror image of of its Shanghai's sister cities, one of its sister cities, which is Liverpool.

And this area used to be part of the British concession.

But without good fortune, for the one I had not the necessary influence for, and for the other I lacked that peculiar gift of obsequiousness, which is so necessary to success in that line of business.

In the meantime, my personal expenditure was going remorselessly on, and I very soon saw that unless something happened and that quickly too, I had every prospect of finding myself deprived of my belongings, sleeping on the Bund, and finally figuring in that mixed court in the magistrate's yamen, which is so justly dreaded by every Englishman as the debtor of a Cochin China Jew.

The position was not a cheerful one, look at it in whatever light I would, but I had experienced it a good many times before and had come out of it if not with an increased amount of self-respect, certainly without any very great degree of personal embarrassment.

Arriving at the well, I paid off my coolie and took up a position near the last jump, which I had noticed was a prepared fence and a ditch of considerable awkwardness.

As to Nikola, I'll think the whole matter carefully out this evening, and if I approve, after dinner, I'll walk over and present this letter personally.

I thereupon descended from the dog cart at the corner of the road, and having again thanked my friend for the kindness he had shown me, bade him goodbye and took myself off.

Reaching the Bund, I sat myself down on a seat beneath a tree and dispassionately reviewed the situation.

All things considered, it was a pretty complicated one.

But without good fortune, for the one I had not the necessary influence for, and for the other I lacked that peculiar gift of obsequiousness which is so necessary to success in that line of business.

In the meantime, my personal expenditure was going remorselessly on, and I very soon saw that unless something happened, and that quickly too, I had every prospect of finding myself deprived of my belongings, sleeping on the Bund, and finally figuring in that mixed court in the magistrate's yamen, which is so justly dreaded by every Englishman as the debtor of a Koshin China Jew.

The position was not a cheerful one, look at it in whatever light I would, but I had experienced it a good many times before, and had come out of it, if not with an increased amount of self-respect, certainly without any very great degree of personal embarrassment.

Arriving at the well, I paid off my coolie and took up a position near the last jump, which I had noticed was a prepared fence and a ditch of considerable awkwardness.

As to Nicola, I'll think the whole matter carefully out this evening, and if I approve, after dinner, I'll walk over and present this letter personally.

I thereupon descended from the dog-cart at the corner of the road, and having again thanked my friend for the kindness he had shown me, bade him goodbye and took myself off.

Reaching the Bund, I sat myself down on a seat beneath a tree and dispassionately reviewed the situation.

All things considered, it was a pretty complicated one, though I had not revealed as much to Barkston, who had derived such happiness from his position of guide, philosopher, and friend.

It was a detail, infinitesimally small and unimportant, of the quality of patience in a people who for centuries have endured a great deal from those sitting in the driver's seats of China A city to be noisier than Shanghai would have to be in a state of constant explosion.

Here is a recording made on the Bund, the broad embankment along the Wangpu River near Suchao Road on a normal morning.

One of the sounds you'll hear is from an American cruiser anchored in the Wangpu.

The disorder of hundreds of coolies, rickshaw boys, the noise of buses, trucks and crams, of ships and shipping was topped at one point by the striking of noon on the famous customs house clock high above the bund.

However, the municipal Duma had met to discuss emergency measures, including how to replace the state police with an urban militia.

On the same day, the Bund's local committee decided to organize a solemn funeral for the victims who had fallen the day before on the barricades.

But Neudhardt, understanding that such a demonstration would cause, as always, a new revolutionary explosion, gave the order to remove in secret of the Jewish hospital where they were, the five corpses, and to bury them before the scheduled date, which was done on the night of the 18th.

The next day, the organizers demanded that the corpses be unearthed and brought back to the hospital.

Quoting, During the pogrom, there was a certain coordination center that worked quite well.

Universities played an enormous role in the preparation of the events of October.

The Soviet coalition of the Odessa University included a Bolshevik, a Menshevik, an SR, a representative of the Bund, Zionist socialists, the Armenian communities, Georgian and Polish ones as well.

Student attachments were formed even before the pogrom.

So they were charging people going back and forth from this part of the...

The international settlement that we bestood on to go across into what's known as the Bund.

And it was also, another wee factoid, it was the first place this hotel to have electric lighting in the whole of China was also to come here.

So that's the story behind the The Richards or the Astor Hotel, which was closed down.

That's the Russian consulate.

And I think they've had that building the whole time, apart from maybe when there was a little bit of friction between the two countries.

But it's one of the best spots on the Bund.

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