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The Dàjìng Gé Pavilion wall, which is the only remaining part of the Old City of Shanghai wall The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand years and closely parallels the development of modern China. Originally a small agricultural village, Shanghai developed during the late Qing dynasty (1644–1912) as one of China's principal trading ports. Although nominally part of China, in practice ...
3.6 1950s. 3.7 1960s. 3.8 1970s. ... Shanghai History & Cultural Relics ... Chinese Accountants in early 20th Century Shanghai". Accounting Historians Journal. 30 ...
Shanghai tram, 1920s. On 11 July 1854 a committee of Western businessmen met and held the first annual meeting of the Shanghai Municipal Council (SMC, formally the Council for the Foreign Settlement North of the Yang-king-pang), ignoring protests of consular officials, and laid down the Land Regulations which established the principles of self-government.
With the first tram line been in service in 1908, trams were once popular in Shanghai in the early 20th century. By 1925, there were 328 tramcars and 14 routes operated by Chinese, French, and British companies collaboratively, [248] all of which were nationalized after the PRC's victory in 1949.
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Throughout the 1950s, China gradually restructured its industries under state ownership. [1]: 7 China's state-led industrialization in the early 1950s was heavily influenced by the Soviet experience. [2]: 154 During China's First Five-Year Period (1953–1957), industrial development was the primary goal.
The Shanghai History Museum was established in 1983 as the "Shanghai History and Artefacts Exhibition Hall". [1] It first opened to the public on May 27, 1984, on the premises of the Shanghai Agriculture Exhibition. [1] The museum was moved to a new location (1286 Hong Qiao Road) and renamed to the "Shanghai History Museum" in 1991. [1]
Shanghai was divided into the International Concession and the French Concession in the 1930s and early 1940s. Owing to the protection of foreign nations (e.g., Britain and France), Shanghai was a prosperous and a rather politically stable city. Some shidaiqu songs are related to particular historical events (e.g., the Second Sino-Japanese War ...