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	Shanghai Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Shanghai Museum (Chinese:上海博物館) is a museum of ancient Chinese art, situated on the People's Square in the Huangpu District of Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
		Westerner on a camel, Tang dynasty, Shanghai Museum.
		Designed by a local architect, the new museum building is designed in the shape of an ancient, bronze, tripod cooking vessel called a ding.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai_Museum (328 words)

	Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanghai once became the third largest financial centre in the world ranking after New York and London, and the largest commercial city in Far East in the late 19th century and early 20th century.
		Shanghai was lost to Japan in the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 until its surrender in 1945.
		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 (5683 words)

	Shanghai Museum
		The world-renowned Shanghai Museum, a museum of ancient Chinese art, was established in December, 1952 at the West Nanjing Road which was once the club of the Shanghai horse race course.
		Shanghai Museum has the research departments of Chinese bronze, ceramics, paintings and calligraphy, and artifacts, and a scientific laboratory for preservation of cultural relics, with researchers and associate researchers over fifty in number.
		The new Shanghai Museum has set up ten special galleries of bronze, calligraphy, ceramics, furniture, jades, minority art, numismatics, paintings, sculptures, and seals, together with a special gallery of donated relics and three temporary exhibition halls.
	www.shme.com /travel/museum/museum.htm (925 words)

	Mr Ma and the creation of Shanghai Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At that time the museum was housed in the former race course club house, close to its current address, and it benefited from the support of Chen Yi, the communist general who ran Shanghai.
		One of the Shanghai Museum's many benefactors is Pan Dayu, the 94-year heiress of the famous Qing dynasty official, Pan Zuyin, who bequeathed a collection of 300 ancient bronzes.
		The Shanghai Museum has rewarded her generosity with a pension and new and comfortable housing, a small but comfortable flat for her family.
	www.gotheborg.com /qa/mrma.shtml (2425 words)

	City Guide of Shanghai,Shanghai Museum,Oriental Pearl TV Tower,Yu Garden,The Bund,Chenghuang Temple,Children's ...
		Once known as the “Paris of the East”, Shanghai is now a city with the population of more than 13 million, the largest economic and trade center, as well as a famous historical and cultural city in China.
		Shanghai Botanic Garden is founded at a site for tree cultivation in1974, and now serves as one of the most tree planted areas in Shanghai.
		Shanghai Children's Palace is the former home of one of old Shanghai's most prominent Jewish families - the Kadoories.
	www.discoverchinatours.com /cityguide/cityguide_shanghai.htm (767 words)

	Shopping in Shanghai
		The world-renowned Shanghai Museum, is a museum of ancient Chinese art, established in December of 1952 at the West Nanjing Road, which was once the club of the Shanghai horse race track.
		Shanghai Museum is especially famous for its treasure of bronzes (bells, knives, axeheads, chariot ornaments), ceramics, Chinese calligraphy and traditional paintings.
		The spheres are supposed to represent pearls (as in "Shanghai, Pearl of the Orient").
	www.pages.drexel.edu /~xl25/fun.html (1371 words)

	CNTO - China National Tourist Office
		The picturesque Bund is the symbol of Shanghai.
		Shanghai, located along the coast of the East China Sea and the southern banks of the mouth of the Yangtze River, is a city under the direct jurisdiction of the Central Government.
		Shanghai is an ideal "shopping paradise." Nanjing Road, known as "China's No.1 Street", the reconstructed Huaihai Road, Jinling Road, East and North Sichuan Road, the Yuyuan Garden shopping and tourist area, the Ever Bright City Commercial Center, Xujiahui Commercial Center, and Zhangyang Road Commercial Center in Pudong are all packed with rows of shops.
	www.cnto.org /shanghai.asp (741 words)

	Shanghai Museum - Shanghai Fine Art Museum
		Shanghai Museum is to the south of the People's Square in the downtown area.
		What makes Shanghai Museum different from others in the world is that it integrates traditional culture and spirit into the whole construction in an exquisite way.
		Shanghai Museum is renowned for its rich collections and their high quality.
	www.warriortours.com /cityguides/shanghai/shanghai_museum.htm (184 words)

	Shanghai - The Modern Metropolis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shanghai the metropolis lies by the river Huangpu, the 80 km long artery of Shanghai of which 30 km of its upriver flows into the Yangzi and thus guarantees access to the sea.
		Shanghai is a city without a province and it is made up of 10 surrounding rural districts and 12 city districts.
		The presence of the museum contradicts the cliché of Shanghai being a consumer paradise bereft of culture.
	www.regit.com /regitour/china/intplace/shanghai.htm (479 words)

	Shanghai - Wikitravel
		Shanghai was the largest and most prosperous city in the Far East during the 1930s, and remained the most developed city in Communist China.
		Shanghai is split in two by the Huangpu River (黄浦江), with the older town on the west bank known as Puxi (浦西) and the brash new development on the east side being Pudong (浦东).
		For 21st-century Shanghai, cross the river to gawp at the skyscrapers of Pudong.
	wikitravel.org /en/Shanghai (2739 words)

	The New Shanghai Museum
		The museum promises not only to bring greater recognition to one of the world’s finest collections of Chinese art, a synoptic trove of some 120,000 objects, but also to introduce the art of the West to millions of culturally isolated Chinese.
		Founded in 1952, the Shanghai Museum arose in the turbulent aftermath of the 1949 Communist Revolution, when many were fleeing and selling their possessions at bargain prices.
		The museum staff has grown to 330 employees, with scores of curators and conservators whose research is the last word in many areas of Chinese art.
	www.jasonkaufman.com /articles/new_shanghai_museum.htm (1259 words)

	departures.com \| Shanghai Surprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When the Shanghai Museum opened in 1996, there were wide reports that it set a new, much higher museological standard.
		Shanghai is young for a Chinese city, not having really come into its own until the 19th century, but it's the country's richest metropolis, and the museum's Chinese art collection, comprising some 120,000 works, is among the best in the world.
		The largest gallery of all, occupying most of the museum's third floor, it is exquisitely finished, with grilled windows and curved, carved wooden roofs over the cases, to suggest the serene atmosphere of a Ming scholar's study.
	www.departures.com /ad/ad_1101_chinamuseum.html (1925 words)

	Remarks at the Shanghai Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This museum is a fitting symbol of what I have seen in China these last few days -- the magnificence of your ancient past and your brilliant future.
		You are making Shanghai a place the world looks to for commerce, culture and people of different walks of life thriving together.
		In Shanghai, you are building that bridge to the 21st century, and we want to build it with you.
	clinton4.nara.gov /WH/New/China/19980630-3198.html (487 words)

	Study Abroad Programs in China: Shanghai
		Shanghai is also the birthplace of many of China's political leaders from Jiang Zemin to Zhu Rongji.
		Shanghai is, however, not all modern glitz, it is also home to a number of significant cultural and historical sights.
		From the museum's architecture to the excellent format of the exhibits, this museum is definitely not to be missed.
	www.educasian.com /location/shanghai.html (241 words)

	Sex in Shanghai? The Museum of Ancient Chinese Sex Culture -- ThingsAsian Article
		Shanghai officials then refused to grant the museum "scenic location" status that would have allowed travel agencies to list it in brochures, very likely drawing more tourists.
		The Museum was struggling financially, so when officials from Tongli, a tourism spot that attracts 1.5 to 2 million visitors every year, came to Shanghai last June to talk about moving, Professor Liu, founder of the museum, was very interested.
		The new 5,000 square metres museum is in a building that once was a girl's school which opened in 1906.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.2506.html (979 words)

	Shanghai Museum, China - lastminute.com
		Located on People's Square, the Shanghai Museum is one of the city's main highlights, housing over 120,000 historical artefacts and covering a period spanning from prehistory to the last imperial dynasty.
		Shanghai was only thrust into the spotlight in June 1842, when a British seaborne force captured it during the First Opium War.
		By 1937, Shanghai was the worlds fifth largest city and Chinas most advanced, home to a rich ethnic mix of East and West and protected by its colonial status from the political storms ravaging the rest of China.
	www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/Asia/China/Shanghai/WOW-Attraction-96968.html (758 words)

	USATODAY.com - Shanghai museum pays record $4.5 million for calligraphy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BEIJING (AP) — A museum in Shanghai has paid a record $4.5 million to buy a 1,000-year-old set of Chinese calligraphy books from an American art dealer, officials said Monday.
		The Shanghai Museum paid for the work with help from the Shanghai city government, she said.
		The Shanghai Museum first spotted the collection in 1980 at a Hong Kong auction, but couldn't afford it, the China Daily said, citing the museum's deputy director, Wang Qingzheng.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-08-04-china-book_x.htm (466 words)

	Old City Shanghai, Shanghai, Regent Tour China
		For a time the museum seemed likely to close down, but as people are now more aware of the cultural value of ancient sexual practices, the museum has fortunately met with development opportunities, and a branch has opened in Zhejiang¡¯s Hangzhou.
		The museum exhibits include objects of ancient sex worship, and also on display are the tools used to bind women¡¯s feet, and to keep them chaste.
		Curator Liu Dalin of the museum is a professor at Shanghai University, and a noted sociologist in China.
	www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/sha/sha-sights-sex.htm (582 words)

	Shanghai Museum - helpful tips & insights by a travel authority
		The Shanghai Museum is China's finest and one of the world's greatest museums.
		The Shanghai Museum has ten permanent specialized galleries (bronze, calligraphy, ceramics, coins, furniture, jades, minority art, paintings, sculpture and seals) plus several special exhibition halls.
		The 2,500 year old bronze wine warmer (see photo) in the form of an ox is a museum goers' favorite.
	www.hillmanwonders.com /china/shanghai_museum.htm (265 words)

	WWW Virtual Library: Museums around the world
		University Museum of Mineralogy, Petrography and Minerals University of Mining and Geology St. Ivan Rilski, Sofia.
		The age of enlightenment in the paintings of France's national museums on-line exhibition.
		Museums of Lithuania (in English, French and German).
	icom.museum /vlmp/world.html (1076 words)

	China Tours - tour packages
		Shanghai, the biggest city in China, is described by Lonely Planet as:
		Shanghai Museum: often ranked as China's best museum, it is the biggest museum in China with a fine collection of over 120,000 pieces of Chinese artifacts.
		The Humble Administrator's Garden: the largest garden in Suzhou with 10 acres, built in 1509 AD in Ming Dynasty,it is divided into the eastern, middle and western parts, centering upon the broad expanse of a lake to form the poetic and picturesque garden landscapes and waterscapes with exquisite buildings and luxuriant vegetation.
	www.chinaodysseytours.com /tour_shanghai.htm (1422 words)

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		As if to further set it apart from its surroundings, the Museum is subtly colored a creamy yellow to contrast with the uniformly red limestone of the University buildings and its setting in landscaped greenery opposed to the large expanses of concrete and paving stones that characterize all such institutions.
		It was at the Museum that I had my first opportunity of seeing the paintingsÛmany of them relatively largeÛdiscretely hung for full viewing, his cramped studio allowing only a fragmented and cursory look since many were placed in front of others as they lined his walls.
		After many speeches orchestrated by Zhang Shengkun (Vice President of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Master of Ceremonies for the day), gift-tributes to Chen Chi and an introduction to the new Curator of the Museum, Wang Zongguang, the ribbon-cutting was effected and the doors thrown open to the public for the first time.
	arttimesjournal.com /art/art_archive/museum/art.htm (1444 words)

	Shanghai Meseum (People's Square)- Shanghai, China - VirtualTourist.com
		Shanghai Museum is by far the most organized of all the museums in China I have been to.
		Shanghai Museum is by no mean a bad museum, but being the most comprehensive museum in all of China, it saddens me as a museum lover and a Chinese.
		Every museum manager and director in China should be taken to the Shanghai Museum and told to "beat that!" There are numerous general explanatory panels in Chinese and English that set the context for what you see.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/China/Shanghai_Shi/Shanghai-1003464/Things_To_Do-Shanghai-Shanghai_Meseum_Peoples_Square-BR-1.html (1346 words)

	Shanghai WebSite - Travel in China
		Shanghai Museum is situated at the southern side of the People's Square.
		The design of the museum, a square foundation supporting a circular roof, incorporates ancient Chinese philosophy that the sky is round and the earth is square.
		The museum now collects some 120,000 pieces of precious antiques, accounting for almost half of the total such collections in the country.
	www.shanghai.ws /TIClook10265.html (215 words)

	Travel in China,Shanghai Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Shanghai museum, established in 1952, is located in People's Square, reputing as one of the four largest museums in China.
		Covering a construction space of 38,000 sqm, the museum is 29.5 meters high with five floors aboveground and two underground.
		Opened to visitors at the end of 1995, the museum contains 120,000 cultural relics of all the his-torical periods in ancient China, in which collections of bronzes, ceramics, paintings, calligraphy and ancient sculptures are among the best in China.
	www.chinavoc.com /travel/scenery/shmuseum_s.asp?id=h (371 words)

	CBBC - China Guide - City Guides - Shanghai
		Xin Tian Di The Shikumen buildings within Shanghai Xintiandi retain the antique walls, tiles and exterior of the Shikumen housing of old Shanghai, while the internal spaces have been designed and decorated to suit the uptempo lifestyle of the 21st century city dwellers.
		The Shanghai Museum, which formally opened in October 1996, features some of the best museum galleries and displays in the Chinese world.
		But the museum director, the world's leading Chinese bronze expert, says this is a coincidence, and swears the design is based upon the ancient Chinese concept of the universe - that the sky is round and the earth is flat.
	www.cbbc.org /china_guide/city_guides/shanghai.html (787 words)

	Shangahi: The Shanghai Museum
		The Shanghai Museum is located at the heart of People's Square.
		With a collection of over 120,000 pieces of cultural relics in twelve categories, including bronze, ceramics, calligraphy, paintings, jades, numismatics, furniture, seals, sculptures, minority art and foreign art, Shanghai Museum is especially famous for its collection of bronzes, ceramics, paintings and calligraphy.
		The museum is equipped with an electronic tour guide and a recorded explanation with the tour points marked numerically.
	www.sfu.ca /geog351fall03/groups-webpages/gp6/Shanghai/html/museum.html (142 words)

	Sex museum to open to minors for education
		China's first sex museum will lift its age restriction to open to minors for the first time, as it attempts to become a sex education base for youngsters.
		The museum's owners feared admitting minors would lead to unnecessary opposition from the public, according to founder Liu Dalin, a retired sociological professor from Shanghai University.
		Originally located on downtown Wuding Road, the sex museum was forced to move to its current location in Jiangsu in 2003 due to low attendance and high rent.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-11/14/content_494428.htm (354 words)

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