The publication related to the exhibition Shangay-Shanghai. Parallel Diversities Between East and West is intended to offer an overview of the creative activities of Hungarians who were attached to Shanghai in the first half of the twentieth century, and evoke the image of the East that was widespread in Hungary at the time. Viewed from some unconventional angles, and incorporating a plethora of associated artistic fields, the book examines a number of territories, topics and objects that have so far eluded closer inseption, and illustretes some of ways in which Far Eastern influences affected Hungary during the period in question, and how Western influences were conveyed, via Hungarian intermediaries, to the Orient, especially to Shanghai. The volume is diveded into nine units. The topic of these units beyond the historical background are travellers and traders, architects and construction, artist influences, films and movies, music, dance and theaters, fashions. The volume well illustrated with color and archive photos.