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The Investigation Log
Filed by Koolangsu from the Bund, Shanghai. New evidence surfaces weekly.
One Broken Vase
Shanghai, 1939. The Bund. Customs House. Shanghai Municipal Police* officers crack open a crate bound for New York. Inside: an art catalogue with a coded message, a bronze artifact sealed within a porcelain vase, impossible to extract without breaking the porcelain. The police saw conspiracy in every character they could not read.
They broke the vase. A bronze knife from the Three Kingdoms period emerged.
What followed were months of surveillance of a circle of scholars in an antique shop on Foochow Road.
*The Shanghai Municipal Police (S.M.P.) was a colonial-era force controlled by the Shanghai Municipal Council, a body dominated by foreign powers running the International Settlement. It had its own Special Branch, its own intelligence apparatus, its own informant networks, and its own political anxieties. In 1939, with Japanese forces encircling the city, the SMP was under enormous pressure to prove it still controlled what happened inside its walls.
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