The Shanghai Race Club board game introduction by Tina Kanagaratnam
September 29, 2009
The Shanghai Race Club, one of the wealthiest private social club in the world in the 1930’s was the centre of Shanghai social life – firms like Jardines raced exotic ponies in the firm’s name, foreign courtesans had their own stands and millionaires like Sir Victor Sassoon popped Champagne and dined on stuffed quail in their own tiffin rooms.
There were Turkish baths, bowling lanes and horse heads on the banister – and plenty of entertainment (such as the inebriated socialite who slipped into a gigantic punchbowl one memorable Christmas).