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	Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanghai once became the third largest financial centre in the world, ranking after New York City and London, and the largest commercial city in Far East in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
		Political power in Shanghai has traditionally been seen as a stepping stone to higher positions within the PRC central government.In the 1990s, there was what was often described as the politically right-of-center "Shanghai clique," which included the president of the PRC Jiang Zemin and the premier of the PRC Zhu Rongji.
		Shanghai is administratively equal to a province and is divided into 19 county-level divisions: 18 districts and 1 county.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai (6115 words)

	Shanghai Medals, A Preliminary Checklist
		This is probably the commonest of the Shanghai medals.
		It is an eight-pointed bronze star with the municipal seal on the obverse and the text "For Service Rendered August 12th to November 12th, 1937" on the reverse.
		This is a white metal, eight-pointed, star-shaped medal with the Shanghai Municipal seal within the star on the obverse.
	www.columbia.edu /~mckeever/shanghaimedals/shanghaimedals.html (995 words)

	Shanghai Municipal Council Flag
		Municipal Council grew to include members from many nations resident in the settlement.
		An adjunct of the Shanghai Municipal Council was the
		The Shanghai Volunteer Corps (SVC) was established in 1854 by agreement among American, British and French trade delegations and consuls residing in that city.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/5047/SHANGFLG.html (498 words)

	Autumn Jade Publishing - Shanghai History
		In 1554 Shanghai attained the status of a "Walled Town." The wall is stated to have been from three to four miles long and twenty-three feet in height, with six gates and twenty arrow towers.
		Shanghai was in no way affected by the fighting and the Chinese of the Shanghai area accepted the new regime by acclamation on November 4.
		Shanghai was not directly concerned, but many young Shanghailanders returned to their native countries for military service, and, particularly after China's declaration for the Allies, German interests inevitably suffered greatly.
	www.autumnjade.com /shanghai_history.html (2990 words)

	NACS Conference 2001: Tiina Airaksinen, The British Influence on the Radical Nationalism in China
		Secondly, the foreigners' uncompromising reactions towards the May Fourth Movement of 1919 and the May 30th Movement of 1925 in Shanghai made it difficult for the protestors to reconcile with the International Settlement's administration that was presided by the British.
		Eventually, the Shanghai Municipal Police scared away the protestors as they opened fire towards the crowd and killed one and wounded nine participants.
		Shanghai's profitable business was paralysed for days, and thus, the businessmen eagerly used necessary means to normalise the trade conditions.
	www.helsinki.fi /nacs/tiina_airaksinen.htm (2185 words)

	CNN - 'Secret War in Shanghai' - November 29, 1999
		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.
		He was nominally assisted by a municipal council appointed by himself, but his relationship with them was akin to that between Louis XIV and the court of Versailles.
		The council's chief civil servant, Godfrey Phillips, a former president of the Cambridge Union, was one of the most powerful men in Shanghai.
	www.cnn.com /books/beginnings/9911/secret.war (2212 words)

	Treaty Ports and Extraterritorality in China - 1921-22
		Most were organized with a local municipal council but, in all instances, the local consul had the ultimate administrative and political authority over the concession.
		Shanghai exceeded 60,000 in the late 1920s, and again in the late 1930s, the Chinese population within those two areas was more than 300,000 and the overall population of the metropolitan area was well over 3,000,000.
		Municipal Council was composed of elected representatives of the qualified foreign ratepayers.
	www.geocities.com /treatyport01/TREATY01.html (3024 words)

	Tales of old Shanghai - Library - A Short History of Shanghai
		Shanghai celebrated its semi-centennial on November 17 and 18, 1893, and the International Settlement was en fete.
		At a meeting of the community which was very largely attended, a strong protest was made against the Council's action, and the opinion was expressed that owing to it, the prestige of 50 years had been lost.
		Shanghai being a cosmopolitan Settlement, it was impossible for the Council to take an official part in the Diamond Jubilee, and therefore the celebration was carried out under the auspices of the British Consular authorities and the British residents.
	www.earnshaw.com /shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/pott/pott13.htm (1771 words)

	USF Center for the Pacific Rim :: Pacific Rim Report No.23
		In Shanghai no country represented was authorized to exercise passport control after the outbreak of Sino-Japanese hostilities in 1937, as the city was not under the jurisdiction of China or any other single power.
		Nevertheless, as stability in Shanghai was the most important priority for the Japanese, on February 18, 1943 the military authorities issued a proclamation about the establishment of a restricted area for stateless refugees in Hongkou where many of the Jews were already residing.
		As Shanghai’s economy was quickly revitalized, some refugees, especially the Russians who did not suffer any wartime disabilities, sought to stay and establish their new life in Shanghai (Mao’s regime, however, did not allow them to stay without Soviet papers), but the overwhelming majority of the refugees wanted to leave.
	www.pacificrim.usfca.edu /research/pacrimreport/pacrimreport23.html (4443 words)

	Western Capitalism in China: A History of the Shanghai Stock Exchange
		Crucial to both was the formation of the International Settlement in Shanghai as a result of the Treaty of Nanking, 1842 (which ended the Opium War) and subsequent agreements between Chinese and foreign governments.
		Shanghai had no shortage of people who were willing to risk investing in local companies.
		Greyhound racing had arrived in Shanghai in 1928 and the shares in companies who ran the sport were briefly "the focus of all activity" (p.
	eh.net /bookreviews/library/0425.shtml (1246 words)

	Shanghai Emergency Postal Service 1932 - the Scouting Connection
		The Shanghai International Settlement's Municipal Council was organised in 1863 following agreement between the American and British representatives in Shanghai to combine those two settlements.
		By 1932, Shanghai was a cosmopolitan city with a population in excess of 1.5 million people.
		An emergency postal service was organised by the Shanghai Municipal Council and a large quantity of mail was handled by the volunteer service in charge of Mr E.S. Wilkinson.
	www.slettebo.no /scout/shanghai.htm (2695 words)

	SMP Files
		Before the Communist take-over in September 1949, Shanghai was a cosmopolitan city with three independent sectors: the French Concession, the International Settlement and the Chinese Municipality of Greater Shanghai which included Hongkew where most of the Jewish refugees either lived after arrival circa 1938 to 1940 or were forced to live from 1943.
		The International Settlement's ruling body was the Shanghai Municipal Council, a citizen group.
		Its law enforcement arm, the Shanghai Municipal Police (SMP), included Chinese, Indian, Russian and Japanese officers, but the most senior officers were British.
	www.rickshaw.org /smp.htm (421 words)

	Conference Session Abstract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The Shanghai Municipal Council in the Eyes of its Residents
		We can view the Shanghai Municipal Council, as is often done over the waters, as a government of foreign occupation, which worked only because of its virtual monopoly of certain types of violence and its networks of collaborators (compradores, warlords, gangsters).
		I mean that, although the SMC didn't even have any record of the names of its Chinese ratepayers as late as at least 1922 (it registered buildings instead), individuals saw themselves as having a right to a voice.
	www.oriental.cam.ac.uk /polprac_2a.html (343 words)

	Virtual Shanghai
		Shanghai shi shiqutu (Map of the urban districts of the Shanghai municipality) - 151 x 107 cm - Shanghai, Zhonghua ditu xueshe chuban, 1992 (3th ed).
		Shanghai shi shiqutu (Map of the urban districts of the Shanghai municipality) - 152 x 107 cm - Shanghai, Zhonghua ditu xueshe chuban, 1988 (2th ed.).
		Shanghai shiqu jiaotongtu (Traffic map of the urban districts of Shanghai), Shanghai, Zhonghua ditu xueshe chuban 1988 (4th ed.
	virtualshanghai.ish-lyon.cnrs.fr /Map_Inventory.php (3654 words)

	Dan Washburn's Shanghai Diaries: The best 70-year-old map of Shanghai
		Shanghai, Taiwan and Irvine, California in diplomatic row Imagine this: A high school parking lot in Irvine, a small city in southern California.
		Shanghai's counterfeit market closes (Chinapost.com.tw) Shanghai's biggest market for counterfeit goods closes today, a victim of rising property prices rather than pressure from the U.S. and European Union for China to crack down harder on piracy.
		Shanghai Airlines setting sights on international player status (Bangkok Post) Shanghai _ Shanghai Airlines, China's first commercial airline listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, is gearing up to grow from a regional carrier to become an international player.
	shanghaidiaries.danwashburn.com /archives/2005/01/30/the_best_70yearold_map_of_shanghai (2380 words)

	Chinese Maritime Customs Project: Shanghai Registers
		Microfilms of these, and the Kirchenbuch, 1933-1949 of the Evangelische Kirche Shanghai, are available from the Family History Catalogue via Family Search.
		Reciprocity exists between the Foreign Consulates and the [Shanghai Municipal Council Public Health] Department whereby certified copies of medical statistics of birth are sent to the Consulate concerned, the Consulates notifying the Department of births not covered by such certificates".
		Presumably the SMC ran this system until its organs were handed over to the (collaborationist) Special Municipality of Greater Shanghai in mid-1943.
	www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/History/Customs/shanghairegisters.htm (253 words)

	Tales of old Shanghai - Library - Fortune magazine Jan 1935
		A fervid Rotarian, he too is a bull on Shanghai; but, though President of the Board of the American School, his three daughters are being educated in Heidelberg.
		To Shanghai's surprise Hopkins jumped from the head of the greatest American trading company in China to the head of the greatest American (or Chinese) public utility in China, gaining much face thereby.
		No frequenter of clubs or giver of Shanghai's ubiquitous parties, his entertaining is done by his Smith-trained wife, who sees that he puts on the show his social position requires, and who comes close to being the social leader of the American community.
	www.earnshaw.com /shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/fortune/t-fortune3.htm (2145 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Shanghai to implement contract energy management system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		04-11-02 The secretary of the Shanghai municipal economic council, Sun Huanbao, said that his city -- one of the most economically developed areas in China -- will do its utmost to implement a "contract energy management" (CEM) system as part of the bid to achieve sustainable development.
		During the Tenth Fifth Year Plan period, Shanghai plans to adjust its energy structure, with the aim of cutting the consumption of coal as a proportion of total energy requirements from 64.5 % in 2001 to 51 % in 2005.
		Although this puts Shanghai in the leading position within China, it lags behind the level of the west, Sun said.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/nts24808.htm (250 words)

	A small piece of good from a terrible time. \| Samizdata.net
		On this basis, Shanghai was close to being an independent city state (albeit with some use of the Brtish and American legal systems and military) until the second world war.
		By 1941 over twenty thousand mostly German and Austrian but also Polish and Lithuanian Jews had arrived in Shanghai, creating a new Jewish area in the Hongkou area of Shanghai, which had once been the American concession but in the 1920s and 1930s was a predominantly Chinese area of the International Settlement.
		The ghetto in Shanghai is a place where at least twenty thousand were saved, and the memorials commemorate that.
	www.samizdata.net /blog/archives/2006/04/a_small_piece_o.html (1542 words)

	RRIII, Pt 2: The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution & the Reversal of Worker's Power in China
		In addition, the State Council, in 1955, set down regulations establishing monetary rewards for scientific contributions aimed at "inspiring the positive and creative talents of scientific research workers....for serving the construction of the country." Monetary rewards to scientists represented multiples of the average worker's yearly income, ranging from 2,000 yuan to 10,000 yuan.
		On Feb. 5, 1967 the Shanghai commune was proclaimed and all the leading cadre of the Shanghai municipal Council were put on notice that they would be evaluated by the people.
		A new organ of power, the provisional committee for the Shanghai People's Commune, was established, with members drawn from a number of mass organizations which had participated in the power-structure.
	www.plp.org /rr3/gpcr.html (17069 words)

	Library of Congress Information Bulletin - September 2004
		Because of their overall excellence and the wide range of proposed subjects, all of the applications were forwarded to an outside review committee, which recommended Ristaino’s selection.
		Ristaino plans to use her knowledge of French, Chinese and Japanese to gain insight from the relevant resources that are in the Library’s collections.
		These include at least six leading Shanghai publications of the period of research, numerous valuable secondary sources in both English and French, travel literature, religious journals, missionary publications, journalists’ writings, and photographs and city maps of the period.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0409/fellow.html (577 words)

	Part VIE ASIA
		Medical activities in the China Theater were moved to Shanghai, where, for the first time in the whole area, civil public health planning and activity involved a considerable share of the effort devoted to Preventive Medicine.
		He and the senior naval representative in the office met frequently with the Commissioner of Health of Shanghai and arranged for such activity as the air spraying of the older sections of Shanghai, and of airfields, internment camps, and dock areas.
		Lists of out-of-bounds establishments were sent to the municipal council, and frequent meetings were held with the council to work out a policy on sanitation inspections and areas of responsibility.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/wwii/civilaffairs/chapter17.htm (9497 words)

	Proscripted Perversions
		In short, it is the heretical nature of this set of countercultural relations of gender and family, abetted by a particular version of the supematural and how this nature is reflected in the court cases that follow, with which the paper is primarily concemed.
		During its tenure as the ruling political body of the International Settlement of Shanghai, the Shanghai Municipal Council, whose members tended to be British, kept order mainly through the Britishrun agency of the Municipal Police.
		One of the functions of the Shanghai Municipal Police (SMP) was to maintain a moral order in the Settlement.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/ealac/gradconf/abstracts96/24perversion.html (1370 words)

	Shanghai : Dateline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		1863 The International Settlement is formed from the merging of the British and American concessions, and is subject to rule by the Shànghai Municipal Council.
		1931 Triad godfather "Big-Eared Dù" is elected to the governing council in the French Concession.
		The Shànghai Municipal Council tallies 20,000 corpses of homeless people who have died in the streets during the year.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=717&catID=0717020051 (1299 words)

	Report on the Regional Seminar on Support and Protection of Older Persons as Consumers
		The main purposes of the Seminar were: (a) to exchange views and experiences; (b) to identify major issues relating to the support and protection of older persons as consumers; and (c) to recommend policy measures to address those issues at the national and regional levels.
		The Seminar participants were invited by CNCA to attend the opening of the International Exhibition on Goods and Services for Senior People organized jointly by the Shanghai Municipal Council and the Shanghai Committee on Ageing in Shanghai from 3-6 October 1999.
		He observed that Shanghai was the first city in China to experience industrialization and at the same time the first city classified as an ageing society in the country.
	www.unescap.org /ageing/meetings/report-shanghai.htm (3790 words)

	Chinese Maritime Customs Project: Shanghai Ancestors
		Holy Trinity Cathedral, between 1937 and 1952, but mostly during the Pacific War and after, a number of interments were made in the Cathedral.
		Follow this link to Dvir Bar-Gal's project to locate and restore to cemeteries Jewish gravestones removed when Shanghai cemeteries were destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.
		Registers of part of this are in the US National Archives, RG263, Records of the Shanghai Municipal Police, File No. SMP N1437.
	www.bris.ac.uk /Depts/History/Customs/shanghaiancestors.htm (380 words)

	Amazon.com: The Shanghai Badlands : Wartime Terrorism and Urban Crime, 1937-1941 (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The release of secret Chinese police files by the C.I.A. allow the inner workings of these terrorist groups, and their links to the Green Gang just before Pearl Harbor was bombed and World War II erupted, to be exposed for the first time.
		This study covers the history of crime in Shanghai from November 1937 to December 1941.
		During this period, the Shanghai metropolitan area was sub-divided into the International Settlement, the French Concession and Japanese controlled Shanghai.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521528712?v=glance (958 words)

	Amazon.com: Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai : A Social History, 1849-1949: Books: Christian Henriot,Noel ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		"On the subject of prostitution in modern Shanghai, this book is encyclopedic in its scope and should find a place on the shelf of standard references on Chinese prostitution, women's history, the history of sexuality, and Chinese social and urban history." Journal of Social History
		For nearly a century, the world of prostitution in Shanghai was dominated by the courtesans.
		Shanghai, 1927-1937 : Municipal Power, Locality, and Modernization by Christian Henriot on 5 pages
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521571650?v=glance (776 words)

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