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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.
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 ...
The Shanghai Ghetto, formally known as the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, was an area of approximately one square mile (2.6 km 2) in the Hongkou district of Japanese-occupied Shanghai (the ghetto was located in the southern Hongkou and southwestern Yangpu districts which formed part of the Shanghai International Settlement).
Shanghai Oil Painting Institute, and Eastern City Women's Art School founded. [10] 1912 - Old City walls dismantled. 1913 - Shanghai Art School, Women's Art and Embroidery Institute, [10] and Xinmin Theater Research Society founded. [13] 1914 - Trolleybus begins operating along Fokein Road. 1916 - Asia Building and Union Building constructed on ...
The Battle of Shanghai (traditional Chinese: 淞滬會戰; simplified Chinese: 淞沪会战; pinyin: Sōng hù huìzhàn) was a major battle fought between the Empire of Japan and the Republic of China in the Chinese city of Shanghai during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Great Way or Dadao Government, formally the Great Way Municipal Government of Shanghai, was a short-lived puppet government proclaimed in Pudong on December 5, 1937, to administer Japanese-occupied Shanghai in the early stages of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
1940s establishments in Shanghai (4 C) 0–9. 1944 in Shanghai (1 C) 1945 in Shanghai (1 C, 1 P) 1946 in Shanghai (1 C) 1949 in Shanghai (1 C, 2 P) W. Shanghai in ...
The Shanghai Evening Post & Mercury was an English language ... In July 1940 the Japanese authorities in Shanghai killed Samuel H. Chang and ordered Starr and Gould ...