A classic of old Shanghai, first published in 1937 and featuring a host of superb and rarely seen Sapajou cartoons. Lovingly reproduced with volumes 1 and 2 together and a foreword by China scholar Richard Rigby. Nowhere has Shanghai's golden age of the 1920s and 1930s been better illustrated than in the drawings of Sapajou, and Shanghai's Schemozzle includes some of the best of his work.

Sapajou was the artistic nom-de-plume of Georgii Avksentievich Sapojnikoff, a former lieutenant of the Russian Imperial Army. In the early 1920s, like so many of his compatriots, he came to Shanghai and joined the North China Daily News as a cartoonist in 1925. His drawings were published daily by the paper for fifteen years. His died soon after the fall of Shanghai to the communists in 1949, while in a refugee facility in Manila.