Citations:Shanghai

English citations of Shanghai

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• [1738, “PROVINCE II. KYANG-NAN.”, in A Description of the Empire of China and Chinese-Tartary, Together with the Kingdoms of Korea, and Tibet‎^[1], volume I, London, translation of original by J. B. du Halde, →OCLC, page 73:

  The Silks, varniſh'd Works, Ink, Paper, and in general every thing that comes, both from Nan-king and the other Cities of the Province, which carry on an aſtoniſhing Trade, is much more eſteem'd and dear, than what is brought from other Provinces. In the City Shang-hay only, and the Villages belonging to it, they reckon above 200,000 Weavers of Callico.]

• [1750s, Frederick Pigou, “Remarks concerning Amoy and Shanghay-hyen.”, in Oriental Repertory‎^[2], volume II, published 1808, →OCLC, page 324:

  Of SHANGHAY-HYEN.
  Shanghay is the name of a City in CHINA, ſituated in Lat. 31° 15'N, it is under the juriſdiction of Song Kyang-fu ; Duhalde mentions it Vol. I. P. 75 ;* the courſe by ſea to Shanghay is to the Northward and Eaſtward of Chuſan ; the Mouth of the River that leads to Shanghay is about 20 miles to the Southward of the Iſland Tſongming. Shanghay is about 60 miles from Suchew : Junks from Fokien continually trade to Shanghay ; as the Shanghay Junks do to Japan.
  Shanghay is near the Places where the green-tea, raw-ſilk and Gold are produced, and much nearer the Bohea-tea and China-Ware Countries than Canton: it abounds with Cotton ; Woollen-goods would probably in time ſell well at Shanghay, on account of its Northerly ſituation, and becauſe from thence they might be eaſily ſent to Japan.]

• 1840 September 12, “IX.—From Shanghai to Pekin.”, in The Penny Magazine‎^[3], number 542, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, →OCLC, page 358, column 2:

  SHANGHAI (the emporium of Nanking) is the first town of any importance on the coast of Kiangnan province. […] If, however, these difficulties were surmounted, and suitable precautions taken against existing dangers, the embouchure of this river would be one of the most eligible points for the establishment of British commerce in the whole empire. Be this as it may, however, certain it is that even now Shanghai carries on the greatest native trade of any port on the coast. […]
  The city of Shanghai is built on the left bank, some distance from the mouth. It is laid out with sufficient elegance, and numerous temples.

• 1842 August 29, “Article 2”, in The Treaty of Nanking:

  His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees, that British Subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint, at the cities and towns of Canton, Amoy, Foochowfoo, Ningpo, and Shanghai...

• 1842 November 26, “GEOGRAPHY OF THE DESPATCHES.”, in The Spectator‎^[4], number 752, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1139, column 2:

  Shanghai is situated on this river, about twelve miles above Woosung; and the river is navigable for steam-boats forty-seven miles higher up—to the point where it issues from the small lake on the south of the canal. Chapoo, the town taken by the British immediately before the attack upon Woosung, is on the north side of the gulf of Che-kiang, about midway between its north cape and its innermost recess. Shanghai is the great emporium of the trade of this district with the tea-provinces on the South, with the province of Shantung and the coast of the Mantchoo Tartars on the North. […]
  4. Shanghai, its position and trade, have also been noticed above. The climate at Shanghai and Ningpo, the most northerly of these ports, is oppressively hot in summer; but the winters are very severe, and woollen cloths in great demand.

• 1842 December, Sylvanus Urban, “Foreign News”, in The Gentleman's Magazine‎^[5], London: John Nichols and Son, page 647, columns 1, 2:

  The troops then took possession of the city of Shanghai, destroyed the public buildings, and distributed the granaries among the people. […]
  3. The ports of Canton, Amoy, Foo-choo-foo, Ningpo, and Shanghai, to be thrown open to British merchants, consular officers to be appointed to reside at them, and regular and just tariffs of import and export (as well as inland transit) duties to be established and published.

• 1843, “Mission to China”, in Thirty-Fourth Annual Report of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions‎^[6], Boston: Crocker & Brewster, →OCLC, page 137:

  The city of Shanghai, situated in latitude 31° 6' N., is seven miles in a direct line from the mouth of the river at Wusung. Its wall is three and three-fourths of a mile in extent, and it has large suburbs, and many hamlets in its vicinity. In a commercial point of view, it is one of the most important cities in the empire.

• 1843 August 5, “Foreign”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle‎^[7], number 31, →OCLC, page 547, column 1:

  Opium and British goods are selling at high prices at Shanghai, and British goods are said to be scarce in China ; not a piece to be found outside for sale.

• 1845, William Hutcheon Hall, Narrative of the Voyages and Services of the Nemesis from 1840 to 1843: and of the Combined Naval and Military Operations in China: Comprising a Complete Account of the Colony of Hong-Kong, and Remarks on the Character & Habits of the Chinese‎^[8], 2nd edition, Henry Colburn, →OCLC, page 400‎^[9]:

  Information was obtained, through Mr. Gutzlaff, that the Chinese were removing their property and families from the important commercial town of Shanghai, situated about fourteen miles up the Woosung river ; from which place it was known that there was very extensive water-communication with some of the most important districts and cities of China.

• 1848 May 6 [1848 April 28], “Later from China”, in Western Literary Messenger‎^[10], volume X, number 14, Buffalo, NY, →OCLC, page 222, column 2:

  There was a great fire at Shanghai, on the 2d of January, 50 houses were destroyed. Alarm had been occasioned at Shanghai on the 11th of January, by an intimation that certain lawless Chinese were organizing a gang for the pnrpoK of attacking and plundering some of the foreign Hongs. Precautions were taken in conseuqence, and all remains quiet.

• 1852 June, “Monthly Record of Current Events”, in Harper's New Monthly Magazine‎^[11], volume V, number XXV, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 116, column 2:

  On the 19th, Senator Gwin introduced a bill to establish a monthly mail between Shanghai, China, and San Francisco, by way of the Sandwich Islands.

• 1853, “The Chinese Revolution”, in William Harrison Ainsworth, editor, The New Monthly Magazine‎^[12], volume 99, London: Chapman and Hall, page 190‎^[13]:

  Nankin was put in a state of defence, and levies were made from every town in Kian-nan and Kiang-si; but with what effect may be judged of from the fact that the consular city of Chang-hai, or Shanghai, with a population of 200,000, only furnished a contingent of 100 regular soldiers and 100 volunteers.

• 1858, “Development of Trade with China”, in Littell's Living Age‎^[14], volume 58, Boston: Littell, Son, and Company, page 221:

  But there has been another reason why Shanghai has prospered beyond all the other British ports of China. "All our ports except Shanghai are separated from the inland waters of China by a chain of mountains. Inside those mountains lies the vast bulk of the empire of China, outside lie our trading ports." Again, the Yang-tse-kiang, which flows out just at Shanghai, affords an easy route by which the goods consigned to that port may reach the interior of the country, and the system of innumerable canals which intersect it.

• 1860, Twelve Years in China: The People, the Rebels, and the Mandarins‎^[15], Edinburgh: Thomas Constable and Co., →OCLC, page 119:

  At Amoy, the boats are peculiarly ugly, but have extraordinary sailing powers. They are shaped just like a spoon. Ningpo boats were got up to Shanghai at one time by foreigners, as they appeared to be the fastest and most comfortable ; but it was found that Shanghai boats of equal size could outsail them there.

• 1863 [1863 July 23], D. McDougal, “Engagement Between the United States Steamship Wyoming and Batteries and Armed Vessels at Simonosaki, Japan”, in Report of the Secretary of the Navy, with an Appendix Containing Reports from Officers, December, 1863‎^[16], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 559:

  On the 7th instant the French despatch steamer Kien-Chang, passing through on her way to Shanghai, was fired on and considerably injured, and on the 11th H. N. M. ship Medusa was also fired on, and sustained some damage and a loss of four men and seven wounded.

• 1875, Johannes Von Gumpach, “The Transit-Question”, in The Treaty-Rights of the Foreign Merchant, and the Transit-System, in China‎^[17], →OCLC, page 22:

  So lately as 1858, when direct communication between Shanghae and Hankow had been more or less interrupted by the presence of the Taeping insurgents in the valley of the Great River for upwards of five years, Lord Elgin found British imports selling in Hankow at rates that by no means bore out the statements of the Chinese at Shanghai regarding the onerousness of the transit duties.

• 1906, Charles M. Dyce, “Commercial”, in Personal Reminiscences of Thirty Years' Residence in the Model Settlement: Shanghai, 1870-1900‎^[18], London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:

  The position of Shanghai as a trading centre is unique. It stands on the bank of the river Hwang-poo, which forms a very fine harbour, and is about thirteen miles from the river Yang-tsze. […]
  Shanghai, situated close to its mouth, is the natural seaport for the whole of this region.

• 1938, Robert Berkov, Strong Man of China: The Story of Chiang Kai-shek‎^[19], Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, page 47:

  Then two incidents broke on a startled nation and sped the course of militant revolution. On May 30, 1925, came the first at Shanghai. A series of labor disputes, centering in Japanese-owned mills, had resulted in a wholesale lockout and the serious wounding of thirteen workers outside one of the factories.

• 1942 May 19, Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Memorandum for the Secretary of the Treasury”, in Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum‎^[20], archived from the original on 06 July 2010:

  T. V. Soong suggests that we copy the Japanese paper money now in circulation at Shanghai and other points in China.

• 1951, Herbert Hoover, “Engineering in China—1899–1902”, in The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover, Years of Adventure 1874-1920‎^[21], New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, page 55:

  In January 1901, we reached Japan where Mrs. Hoover remained for the winter while I went to Shanghai in search of a method of reaching North China. The Port of Taku being frozen and there being then no railway connection between Shanghai and the north, all communication had been suspended for the winter.

• 1956, Harry S. Truman, chapter 6, in Memoirs of Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial And Hope‎^[22], volume II, Doubleday & Company, →OCLC, page 87:

  On October 9 Marshall traveled to Shanghai to appeal to Chou En-lai in person, but the Communist leader was completely adamant.

• 1957, Chiang Kai-shek, “Beginnings (1924-1927)”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[23], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 17:

  Owing to Chen Chiun-ming's** revolt, Dr. Sun left Canton for Shanghai on June 16, 1922. In December Joffe arrived in Shanghai to see him.

• June 28, 1966, Robert McNamara, 4:15 from the start, in LBJ and Robert McNamara, 6/28/66, 7.59A.‎^[24], Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum:

  This third tanker due in this month apparently has been be diverted to Shanghai because they didn't have enough time to unload at Haiphong.

• 1973 September 9, “Is Chou En-lai next target?”, in Free China Weekly‎^[25], volume XIV, number 35, Taipei, page 2:

  Wang Huang-wen, now still in his 30s, undoubtedly is the one who has made the fastest rise—from just being a Shanghai textile mill worker a few years back to the position of presidium second vice-president, right below Chou En-lai, at the 10th congress and, a few days later at the plenum, to the status of party central vice chairman, also right after Chou.
  . . .
  Wang is believed to have done quite a bit of secret police-type work in Shanghai.

• 1978, Richard Nixon, RN: the Memoirs of Richard Nixon‎^[26], Grosset & Dunlap, →ISBN, page 576:

  Our joint statement, issued from Shanghai at the end of the trip, has become known as the Shanghai Communiqué.

• 1979, Gerald Ford, “Boyhood—and Beyond”, in A Time to Heal‎^[27], New York: Berkley Books, published 1980, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 94:

  Arriving in Shanghai on June 26, we toured the city and flew on to Peking. At the end of World War II, China had been prostrate economically and her population demoralized. The change since then was remarkable. The cities we visited were clean; we saw no litter, no flies, no dogs. The people were friendly and hard-working. They appeared to be well fed, clothed and housed and if they lacked political liberty and social mobility, it was impossible to get them to discuss that.

• 1999, “Shanghai”, in The Book of the World, 2nd United States edition (Atlas), Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 411, column 1:

  By the year 2000, Shanghai is scheduled to become an international center of commerce and finance; economic strategists predict that by 2010 the city will have become the world's largest trading center. This "secret capital" of China has set some ambitious goals for itself. The population is proudly celebrating their collective "coming out," and business is booming.

• 2005, Bill Clinton, chapter 19, in My Life‎^[28], volume II, New York: Vintage Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 436:

  From Beijing we went to Shanghai, which seemed to have more construction cranes than any other city in the world.

• 2020 May 11, Ligaya Mishan, “Eating in Xi’an, Where Wheat and Lamb Speak to China’s Varied Palette”, in The New York Times‎^[29], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 11 May 2020‎^[30]:

  The Chinese government started laying intercity high-speed track in 2005, and today, its network is the longest and most heavily relied upon of any nation’s. Six hours are enough to devour the over 900 miles from Shanghai to Xi’an, the landlocked capital of Shaanxi Province in China’s central northwest, standing on the bones of the imperial city of Chang’an. In the seventh and eighth centuries A.D., this was the center of not only China but the globe — the eastern origin of the trade routes we call the Silk Road and the nexus of a cross-cultural traffic in ideas, technology, art and food that altered the course of history as decisively as the Columbian Exchange eight centuries later. A million people lived within Chang’an’s pounded-earth walls, including travelers and traders from Central, Southeast, South and Northeast Asia and followers of Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism. All the while, Shanghai was a mere fishing village, the jittery megapolis of the future not yet a ripple on the face of time.

• 2022 May 17, “Shanghai Covid transmission chain 'cut in all 16 districts': authorities”, in EFE‎^[31], archived from the original on 17 May 2022:

  Authorities of the eastern Chinese metropolis of Shanghai announced on Tuesday that, after more than a month and a half – in some areas, more than two months – of strict lockdowns, it has managed to cut the chain of community Covid-19 transmission in all of its 16 districts. The deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, Zhao Dandan, assured at a press conference that all the city's districts have entered the phase called "zero social transmission," reported state news agency Xinhua.

• 2023 March 27, “Taiwan's former leader Ma sets off on China tour”, in Deutsche Welle‎^[32], archived from the original on 2023-08-12, Politics‎^[33]:

  Former Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou began his 12-day visit to mainland China on Monday, arriving at the Pudong Airport in Shanghai.

• 2024 January 17, Nicoco Chan, “Some Shanghai singles struggle to get married as economy slows”, in Reuters‎^[34], archived from the original on 21 January 2024, China‎^[35]:

  Victor Li is determined to get married soon, but like many other young Chinese grappling with an uncertain economic outlook, the well-heeled Shanghai entrepreneur isn't sure he can afford to.
  "It's very expensive for us to get married, especially in a big city like Shanghai," the 32-year-old said, as he took a break from a ticketed networking event for wealthier, top university-educated singles at an upmarket Shanghai jazz bar.