First of all, I want to thank Kimmi Cheng (NYU) for her advice and Steven Pieragastini, Ph.D. (Loyola Marymount University) for his review of the Shanghai Municipal Archives, Bund Location from 2013 that helped me get prepared for my current visits and for many of the practicalities. To my experience not that much has changed in the research conditions since Steven’s article, but of course I’ll have to see whether requesting unscanned documents has become more or less difficult. In the past couple of days since I’ve been spending my mornings in the reading room, I was able access scanned material and request documents that are available on microfilm. As for the ‘level 2’, fingers crossed, or as a certain American president likes to say: “We’ll see what happens!” [Read more…] about How to navigate in the Shanghai Municipal Archives? A guide based on my experiences