The "Liverpool of the East"

This is getting tiring. But I have to do it - I've now written (I like thinking of it this way) over $500 worth of the Shanghai book. Which is to say, less than half. On the other hand, this is the transcribing notes and things like that - all the bits of information that are hard to find but probably useful for an RPG (a Mongolian pony only twelve hands high can carry a 140lb rider! most young employees of foreign firms took rooms in the French Concession! Patrick givens was the first foreigner to visit Chiang Kai-shek when he arrived in Shanghai!).
I need to get this stuff done before I leave, while I still have the resources to hand. I need the books for all these bits, but I can do the made-up stuff whenever, as I'm... making it up.

I've been doing research for it, sure (thank you, Encyclopedia Cthuliana), but much of it I can just come up with whole cloth.

Wow. Blogger is great for procrastinating, isn't it?