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	Battle of Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Shanghai was the first of the 22 major engagements between the Republic of China and the Empire of Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
		In Chinese, the Battle of Shanghai is known as Battle of Songhu (Chinese: 淞滬會戰; Pinyin: Sōnghù Huìzhàn).
		Shanghai was a cosmoplitan city at the time and had investments and assets from foreign powers, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Empire of Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Shanghai (3839 words)

	Battle of Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Battle at the ports of Shanghai) (August 13, 1937 - November 9, 1937) was a major engagement during the Sino-Japanese War.
		The Battle of Shanghai was the first major battle after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident and the course and decision for total war involved skillful diplomatic maneuverings on Chiang Kai-shek's part.
		Shanghai was a cosmoplitan city at the time and had many foreign investments and assets, including American, British and Japanese.
	www.sugarland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_Shanghai (1041 words)

	Discover Shanghai, China
		Shanghai is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Chang Jiang delta.
		Shanghai was lost to Japan in the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 until its surrender in 1945.
		Shanghai is the birthplace of everything considered modern in China; and was the cultural and economic center of East Asia for the first half of the twentieth century.
	www.magicaljourneys.com /China/china-discover-shanghai.html (1365 words)

	chinamarines.com
		Shanghai in 1842 was a sleepy provincial town, but the arrival of the white man began a remarkable commercial boom.
		The battle for Chapei lasted until March 3rd and neither the Chinese nor the Japanese encroached on the International Settlement but from their front lines, the 4th Marines had grandstand seats for the war.
		The withdrawal of the Chinese army from Shanghai left the International Settlement and the French Concession as two tiny islands of Western authority in a hostile Japanese sea.
	www.chinamarines.com /ver3/shan.htm (2111 words)

	battle of shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Battle of Shanghai (Augst 13, 1937 - November, 1937) was a major engagement during the Sino-Japanese...
		Shanghai (Chinese: , pinyin: shàng hi; Shanghainese IPA: /z h/) is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Chang Jiang delta.
		Shanghai was lost to Japan in the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 until...
	www.china-101.com /articles/19/battle-of-shanghai.html (213 words)

	Battle of Shanghai: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Battle of Shanghai was the first major battle after the Marco Polo Bridge Incident Marco Polo Bridge Incident quick summary:
		The marco polo bridge incident was a battle between japans imperial army and chinas national revolutionary army, marking the beginning of the sino-japanese...
		Shanghai was a cosmoplitan city at the time and had many foreign investments and assets, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/ba/battle_of_shanghai.htm (1515 words)

	Second Sino-Japanese War Sketch @ PriceOfFreedom.com (Price of Freedom) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While the battle was a military defeat for the Chinese, it proved that China would not be defeated easily and showed China's determination to the world.
		The battle lasted over three months and proved to be an enormous morale booster for the Chinese people as it ended the Japanese taunt of conquering Shanghai in three days and China in three months.
		Some major engagements after the initial 1937 campaigns, such as Battle of Xuzhou and the Battle of Changsha were fought by former warlords under the banner of the Kuomintang.
	www.priceoffreedom.com /encyclopedia/Second_Sino-Japanese_War (5469 words)

	Shanghai Topic Center - Travel to China (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Shanghai clique The Shanghai clique is an informal name for officials in the central government of the People's Republic of China who rose...
		Shanghai Grand Theater Shanghai Grand Theater is located at the intersection of Central Boulevard and Huangpi Road South in northern part of the P...
		Shanghai Museum Image:Shanghaimuseumexterior.jpgthumbright300pxShanghai Museum The Shanghai Museum is a museum of ancient Ch...
	www.famouschinese.com /topic/Shanghai (678 words)

	Shanghai - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One of the challenges for Shanghai in the early 21st century is to regain its former status as a world-class city and also make city life more comfortable for all of its residents, including migrant workers from poorer provinces.
		Shanghai is administratively equal to a province and is divided into 19 county-level divisions: 18 districts and 1 county.
		The Revolution was a humbling experience for Shanghai as a whole, as it was brought into line by the Communist regime, whose ideology favoured grass-root agriculture and industry, and opposed bourgeois excesses, which Shanghai stood for in the eyes of many.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Shanghai (5387 words)

	Shanghai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In Chinese, Shanghai's abbreviations are Hù (滬 or 沪) and Shēn (申).
		Shanghai and Hong Kong have had a recent rivalry over which city is to be the economic center of China.
		Average temperature (red) and precipitations (blue) in Shanghai Shanghai faces the East China Sea (part of the Pacific Ocean), and is bisected by the Huangpu River.
	shanghai.wikix.ipupdater.com (3652 words)

	Symbolism.Org: Battle of Symbols: Shanghai: New Symbol City of the Global Economy
		Shanghai’s modern history is brilliantly captured in Shanghai: The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City 1842-1949 by first-generation Chinese American Stella Dong.
		Shanghai looked like she was vying for the new symbol city of the global economy.
		And the city government urged Shanghai residents to stay home which had the effect of emptying large swaths of the city for the benefit of the city’s important international visitors.
	www.symbolism.org /writing/books/bs/symbol-city/home.html (714 words)

	WW2DB: Second Battle of Shanghai
		This three-month battle was the first large-scale confrontation between the armies of Japan and China, and it ended in a disappointing, though not entirely surprising, loss for Chiang's Chinese army.
		With the Americans and the British both holding significant economic interests in Shanghai, he laid a foundation for the two western powers to eventually declare an economic sanction against the Japan, depriving Japan of oil imports that she needed to conduct her expansionist policies.
		While a major defeat for the Chinese, the loss of Shanghai was a morale-booster in that it made clear to her potential allies, the Americans and the British, that the Chinese army was capable of holding against Japanese offensives.
	ww2db.com /battle_spec.php?battle_id=85 (756 words)

	Battle of Nanjing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		General Tang Shengzhi was given the job of defending Nanjing following the retreat of the Chinese Army following the Battle of Shanghai.
		General Tang Shengzhi gathered about 100,000 soldiers, mostly untrained, including a few defeated troops from the Shanghai battlefield, to defend the capital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Nanjing (434 words)

	CNN - 'Secret War in Shanghai' - November 29, 1999
		The battle of Shanghai in the autumn of that year marked the bloody climax of the first phase of the conflict.
		Within half a century Shanghai grew to be the central clearinghouse of waterborne trade between the entire Yangtse river system and the rest of the world.
		China's most dynamic city, her economic, cultural and political hub, Shanghai was the supreme prize awaiting the victor in the struggle for power among the would-be heirs of the Manchu emperors who had been overthrown in the Chinese revolution of 1911 but not replaced by any stable form of national government.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9911/secret.war (2212 words)

	Asean News Network: Nanjing Massacre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Battle in Shanghai was bloody as both sides faced attrition in urban hand-to-hand combat.
		This combined with the trauma of from the Battle of Shanghai nurtured strong sentiments of hate towards the Chinese.
		Many different categories of varying legitimacy exist: soldiers killed during combat, surrendered soldiers summarily executed after the battle, plain-clothed guerilla combatants, plain-clothed soldiers hiding among civilians, civilians wrongly suspected of being guerrila combatants, or those bystanders attacked during the period of indiscriminate killing, rape and looting (which all the scholars deem to be illegitimate).
	www.aseannewsnetwork.com /2004/12/nanjing-massacre.html (3204 words)

	Nanking Atrocities - Introduction
		The war in Shanghai was indeed a decisive battle that caused both sides exorbitant damages, left them with a deep-rooted loathing for each other, and begot vengeance.
		Due to the decay of the internal organs, all the bodies were in ferment and swollen up, and the soft parts of the bodies had gushed out by pressure, such as the eyeballs bulging five or six centimeters [about 2 inches] out of their faces.
		The fierce battle in Shanghai ended in mid-November when a successful landing of Japan's 10th Army at Hangzhou Bay in the south, and of the 16th Division at Baimaokou in the north, threatened the Chinese forces' flank and forced them to withdraw to the west.
	www.geocities.com /nankingatrocities/Introduction/introduction.htm (1451 words)

	Shanghai - Shanghai - Travel to China
		Shanghai (zh-cp c=上海 p=Shandagrave;nghǎi; Shanghainese International Phonetic AlphabetIPA: IPA/zɑ̃ hɛ/) is China's largest city and is situated on the banks of the Yangtze River Delta.
		Administratively, Shanghai is one of four municipalities of Chinamunicipalities of the People's Republic of China, which have political divisions of Chinaprovincial-level status.
		Shanghai is divided into 19 Political divisions of China#County levelcounty-level divisions: 18 district of Chinadistricts and 1 county of Chinacounty.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Shanghai (3656 words)

	Xinhui Presents
		After the second battle of Shanghai and the Rape of Nanjing, where 300,000 Chinese civilians were murdered the IJA believed they were on their way to a quick victory, as they had planned before their Invasion of China.
		Battle of TaiErZhuang was not a critical blow to the Japanese, but for the Chinese, it is a great morale booster, as it showed IJA armor could be stop and it was not invincible.
		This battle marks the end of the Japanese advance in central China for the remaining of the war.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/Stories/Newsletter1-8-2/xinhui.htm (3698 words)

	The 800 heroes - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
		Shanghai was the capital of China at the time and the main stronghold of the Kuomintang.
		After the Japanese forces conquered Shanghai, they marched to Nanjing where they were free to do whatever they pleased with the civilian population.
		Despite that tragedy, the Battle of Shanghai showed the world that China would resist Japan whatever the cost and that's exactly what they did.
	www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=48302 (1521 words)

	20th Century Genocides - The Rape of Nanking
		The actual military invasion of Nanking was preceded by a tough battle at Shanghai that began in the summer of 1937.
		Unlike the troops at Shanghai, Chinese soldiers at Nanking were poorly led and loosely organized.
		As soon as they were assembled, the savagery began, with young Japanese soldiers encouraged by their superiors to inflict maximum pain and suffering upon individual POWs as a way of toughening themselves up for future battles, and also to eradicate any civilized notions of mercy.
	www.unitedhumanrights.org /nanking.htm (1264 words)

	Battle of Shanghai 1932 - China History Forum, online chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The battle ended in early Feb. after the Japanese overrun the Chinese flank.
		The battle left Chapei in ruins, thousands of civilians killed and many more homeless, and created a perfect diversion from the takeover of Manchuria.
		The Shanghai battle you both were talking about was the 1937 one, I was talking about the 1932.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=836 (609 words)

	ECAI Shanghai Conference
		His disappearance and apparent assassination in 1944 would seem to indicate that the government of the time took his art journalism seriously as a potential threat to some of their policies.
		One of them was the way in which the experience of war was reinterpreted and refracted through the print culture that had shaped the late Qing and early Republic as a whole.
		This paper uses one particular set of visual materials as its central point, the photomontages of war news [Zhanqing huakan Wartime pictorial] in a Shanghai newspaper, Zhonghua ribao (The Central China Daily News) during the Japanese attack on Shanghai in summer and autumn of 1937.
	www.ecai.org /activities/Shanghai2005/panel2.html (645 words)

	Shanghai To Host 'Battle of the Brains' - Computing News - Digital Trends
		IBM sponsored programming competition to kick off in Shanghai April 3rd, with more then 200 university programmers from across the world.
		Known for their enormous speed, memory, storage capacity and number-crunching capabilities, IBM POWER-based parallel supercomputers have been used to solve some of the most difficult problems in physics, engineering, biology, geology and the environment.
		For more information on the 2005 ACM Programming Contest, hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, visit the contest Web site at http://icpc.baylor.edu/icpc/finals/default.htm.
	news.digitaltrends.com /news_printerfriendly6463.html (718 words)

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		Shanghai is a solitaire version of the well-known solitaire variation
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	Starbucks wins legal battle in Shanghai against Chinese copycat - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		SHANGHAI (AFX) - Global coffee giant Starbucks has won a two-year copyright battle against Xingbake, a Chinese chain it claimed had copied the US company's logo and name, state media reported.
		A Shanghai court ordered Shanghai Xingbake Coffee Co to pay 500,000 yuan in damages after it judged the company had infringed upon the Seattle-based group's trademark, the China Daily reported.
		The court said Starbucks was entitled to use its name in English and Chinese, as well as have sole use to the design of its logo.
	www.forbes.com /home/feeds/afx/2006/01/02/afx2422923.html (532 words)

	The History Place - Genocide in the 20th Century
		Some of the Chinese POWs were simply mowed down by machine-gun fire while others were tied-up, soaked with gasoline and burned alive.
		One of the last humans left alive after intense bombing during the Japanese attack on Shanghai's South Station.
		After the destruction of the POWs, the soldiers turned their attention to the women of Nanking and an outright animalistic hunt ensued.
	www.historyplace.com /worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm (1323 words)

	Battle of Shanghai - Wikimedia Commons
		en: There are two Battles of Shanghai in recent memory: One in 1937 and one in 1932.
		One of the earlier images of the war to come out from China, this photo appeared in LIFE magazine.
		Many houses were set alight by the Japanese in Shanghai
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Shanghai (135 words)

	Chinese war movie you want to see? - China History Forum, online chinese history forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Personally I would love to see a epic movie being made about the battle of Shanghai in 1937.
		The battle ("rape") of Nanking would be a compelling subject for a movie.
		During the battle, a cowardly eunuch or first mate in the flagship of the Beiyang wilfully changed the captain's orders for two columns into a single column to force the captain to call off confrontation with the Japanese fleet.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=5051 (1501 words)

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