RAS WEEKENDER
Saturday 14th September 2013
10am start
The meeting point will be advised with booking confirmation.
Finish time approximately 12 noon
SVEN AARNE SERRANO
with Betty Barr
A Walk to D, E, F Blocks and the Dew Drop Inn
The Lunghwa C.A.C. site today
WALK: Sven will guide RAS members and guests on a short one-hour tour of the Shanghai Middle School/SHSID campus, located at 989 Baise Road, next to the Shanghai Botanical Gardens. Sven will take the tour to see the six surviving buildings from the Lunghwa C.A.C. site including the former D, E, F Blocks, the Assembly Centre, the former Guards barracks, and the Commissary.
Sven Aarne Serrano Faculty, History Dept at Shanghai High School International Division, b. 1958, San Diego, California. The perfect Shanghailander, dual national Sven is married to a local Xuhui girl, and works at SHSID, the former site of the WWII Lunghwa Civil Assembly Center. He moved to Shanghai in 2008 after working for 17 years in Osaka, Japan where he taught English at Kindai University. Sven is now developing a phone app project that will meld old photographs of Shanghai Middle School and their current views so future visitors to the campus can easily access the past.
Betty Barr was born in Shanghai in 1933. She was interned with her family in Lunghwa Civil Assembly Centre 1943-1945 and attended the Shanghai American School 1946-1949. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1954 and obtained her PhD from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow in 2008. In between, she was a teacher in Scotland, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 2002 Shanghai Boy Shanghai Girl, a memoir co-authored with her husband, George Wang, was published by the Old China Hand Press. Since then they have written three more books and a revised version of SBSG was published in November, 2011.
Shanghai Boy Shanghai Girl: Lives in Parallel
by George Wang and Betty Barr
This book includes chapters about the camp and also drawings and a sketch map. The book can be purchased from: The Old China Hand Reading Room at 27 Shaoxing Lu, off Shaanxi Nan Lu.
This event will be limited to 20 people on a first come first served basis. Priority will be given to those on the waiting list from the May walk and RAS members.
RSVP: to RAS Bookings at: bookings@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
ENTRANCE: Members 100 rmb - Non Members 200 rmb
WEBSITE: www.royalasiaticsociety.org.cn