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Topic: Shanghai Street


  
  Shanghai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Shanghai was lost to Japan in the Battle of Shanghai in 1937 until its surrender in 1945.
Shanghai has an excellent public transportation system and in contrast to other major Chinese cities has clean streets and surprisingly little air pollution (ranked 22nd best in the 2003 official report on air quality among 42 major cities in China, compared to 36th, 35th and 41th for Beijing, Tianjin and Chongqing respectively).
Shanghai is seen as 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.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai   (3921 words)

  
 Facts about topic: (Shanghai Metro)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The Shanghai Metro (上海地铁) is a metro (Electric underground railway) system that serves the city of Shanghai (The largest city of China; located in the east on the Pacific; one of the largest ports in the world).
It is directly in the heart of Lujiazui financial district, the developing financial center of Shanghai.
Shanghai Railway Station (Line 1,3) is a major transportation hub in Shanghai.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sh/shanghai_metro.htm   (709 words)

  
 CTS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Shanghai, whose name literally means "on the sea", is one of the world's largest seaports and one of China’s major industrial and commercial centers.
Shanghai’s Temple of the Jade Buddha is a well-preserved Zen Buddhist monastery which was built in 1882.
Shanghai is at the center of an important rail network and there are daily trains to Beijing (12 hours), and most other provincial capitals.
www.chinatravelservice.com /shanghai.htm   (1725 words)

  
 A Walking Tour of Shanghai's Old Chinese City
In Old Shanghai, as foreign ways and architecture dominated the rest of the city, its "Chinatown" was a crowded place of winding streets, vibrant markets, entrenched customs and a lifestyle that remained relatively unaltered despite the rapid pace of change around it.
Along these two streets, and within their depths, can be found a fascinating slice of Shanghai and the oldest buildings within the city proper.
Shanghai's oldest church, Dongjiadu dates from 1853 and was built by the same Spanish Jesuits who constructed the Bund Observatory Tower, now the Bund Museum of Moon-Watching Party fame.
www.movius.us /articles/chinanow/oldcity.html   (1494 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Shanghai, situated in the watery region in the south of the Yangtze River, is fertile in soil and crisscrossed by rivers and canals.
Shanghai is one of the principle hubs of international and domestic postal and telecommunication.
Shanghai has another name, "Hu," which came from "Hudu." In ancient times, the fishermen in Shanghai invented a bamboo fishing device called "hu." ("Du" in Chinese means "creek.") This area was called "Hu Du" before it became known as Shanghai.
www.chinacenter.umn.edu /resources/main_tip_shanghai.htm   (643 words)

  
 Lady From Shanghai
The restaurant is the labor of love of Josephine Feng, a young native Shanghai émigré who arrived here in 1987 and, after ten years as a textile designer, decided to go into the restaurant business in partnership with her husband, Ji Jie Hong, and Mr.
Wing Jing Lau, the proprietor of Shanghai Domain and Winter Garden (Wing, in his double-breasted vest of fl glove leather and pastel dress shirts, is a trimly elegant presence in the dining room).
Shanghai itself is well known for unusually sweet sauces for thoroughly cooked, braised meats and steaming noodle casseroles.
www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/food/reviews/underground/2515   (672 words)

  
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State Street Bank is the principal subsidiary of State Street Corp of the United States.
Shanghai cannot supplant Hong Kong as China's key middleman in the medium term because it lacks the skills required for international trade, Mushkat said.
The decision-makers in China have made it clear that Shanghai's ambition is to once again become a major financial center of the world, together with London and New York.
www.aimhi.com /VC/tcfa/update/volume3/v3n39.html   (1447 words)

  
 Shanghai Hotels, Hotels in Shanghai Hotels hotels - China Hotel & Global Hotel Reservation Network
The Shanghai Purple Mountain Hotel is situated in the heart of the Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone in the Pudong New Area.
The Mansions is the observatory of new Shanghai.
The Merry Hotel, Shanghai is situated in the Jing An Temple Area, one of the commercial centres of Shanghai.
www.sinohotel.com /hotel/city.html?cid=2   (3459 words)

  
 Asia Times Online - News from greater China; Hong Kong and Taiwan
SHANGHAI - Laws rule China today, its leaders thunder regularly from Beijing, yet many Communist Party cadres and officials still believe their word trumps the law, willfully ignoring it.
Residents of the Sea of Clouds apartments, opposite Shanghai Television's towering headquarters on Qinghai Road branching off downtown boutique-lined Nanjing Road, insist their enclave must be restored to its former simple character, before Beer Street construction began in August for what was supposed to be a brief period - a three-month tourism festival.
According to its website, Beer Street creates "a haven of enjoyable entertainment in the midst of the hustle which is daily life...
www.atimes.com /atimes/China/FJ05Ad01.html   (1852 words)

  
 THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF SWITZERLAND IN CHINA - SHANGHAI FLASH N° 5 March 2001
As the Port of Shanghai is intending to become one of the world's leading containers ports, shipping or shipping related enterprises are trying to enter the market.
According to the figures from Shanghai Shipping Exchange Market, by 1999, there are over 70 container international transportation shipping companies in Shanghai, of which 10 are sino-foreign joint ventures and 42 are wholly foreign-owned.
Xuhui district lies in the south-west of Shanghai.
www.sinoptic.ch /shanghaiflash/2001/200103.htm   (768 words)

  
 Integrating Environmental Considerations into the Economic Decision-Making Process
Broadway Street (now Daming Road) and North Sichuan Road in the American settlement and Mansion Street in the French settlement were all crowed and prosperous and they finally became the economic growth points of Shanghai.
These industries were the basis of the industrial zoning of Shanghai and were important growth points of Shanghai's urban space.
Such a huge profit drive rapidly expanded Shanghai city, so with later intensive construction of public utilities, such as gas supply in the 1860s, power, telephone and telegraph, and tap water supply in the 1880's along with many entertainment facilities, Shanghai started to take on the look of a modern metropolis.
www.unescap.org /drpad/publication/integra/modalities/china/4ch01b01.htm   (471 words)

  
 Tales of Old Shanghai - Ballads of the China Coast
Shanghai streets are to be heard (and smelt) as well as seen.
As has been said, night life in Shanghai owes much of its spontaniety and natural atmosphere to the fact that it is as much the year-in-and-out residents as the visitors who do the reveling at the town's night spots.
The street is filled with the animal life indigenous to such surroundings, taxi-hustlers, procurers, beggers, Russians willing-to-reveal-the-night-life, ricsha coolies, massage house steerers, stolid Annamite policemen and optimistic sharpshooters of every stripe and hue.
www.earnshaw.com /shanghai-ed-india/tales/library/high/t-high.htm   (9259 words)

  
 Wangjianshuo's blog: Shanghai Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Shanghai is famous for the strong execution power of the government.
Although Shanghai is near the East Sea, the downtown is very far from the nearest bean (more than 50 km away).
Shanghai enjoys the highest average salary of all these six major cities in China, but people in the city don't feel happy.
home.wangjianshuo.com /archives/categories/shanghai.htm   (14804 words)

  
 COOK'S NIGHT OUT: JASON XU
The trick to eating Shanghai dumplings is to eat them in one bite, so that the juiciness of the filling fills your mouth.
Shanghai has a population of 20 million people, of whom several hundred thousand are Taiwanese.
The food at Old Shanghai is more traditional than the food Xu prepares at Shanghai 1930, but dinner there affords the adventurous diner new and unique tastes.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/04/18/PKGLI64UJH1.DTL   (672 words)

  
 Shanghai : Main Streets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In downtown Shànghai, the general rule is that east-west streets are named for Chinese cities, while north-south streets are named for provinces and regions.
Shànghai's main streets, as well as some smaller streets that intersect them, are often mouthfuls to pronounce and difficult to remember at first, but after a few trips through the city, they begin to sort themselves out.
One reason that the street names in pinyin seem so long is that they incorporate the characters for north or south, street or avenue, all running together in the street name.
www.frommers.com /destinations/print-narrative.cfm?destID=717&catID=0717030262   (621 words)

  
 AutoRacing1.com - CART Editorial Page
The majority of the streets the race will be held on are 100 feet wide, but in a couple of places they neck down to around 36 feet.
Shanghai has gone through a swift and stunning transformation and is expected to soon overtake Hong Kong as China's financial gateway to the world.
Shanghai is a great club scene, as one resident put it - "the whole City is a buzz, and a very cosmopolitan way of life." We bring you the rest of our story in these incredible photos of Shanghai, hopefully a future destination for one of CART's most grandiose races.
www.autoracing1.com /MarkC/2001/0907Shanghai.htm   (1621 words)

  
 Shanghai's street markets
Most modern city in China, Shanghai is moving up the food chain, with flash buildings, a stunning skyline and nightlife second to none.
Most of Shanghai's old markets are gone, or converted to modern wares: clothing, watches, handbags and gadgets.
But this long-running street bazaar specializing in psuedo-antiques (mostly fake), crafts and traditional trinkets still abounds with atmosphere: men arguing over games of cards, women gossiping amidst the constant clatter of mahjong tiles, down dusty lanes strewn with cages of singing birds and laundry drying on bamboo poles.
www.gluckman.com /ShanghaiMarkets.html   (733 words)

  
 Assignment: Shanghai   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
In fact, the pictures in Assignment Shanghai are notable for their foreshadowing of events to come.
The reality was something else: refugees and prostitutes, soldiers and beggars, street executions and urban protests photographed in difficult and often dangerous circumstances amidst the poverty, corruption, and chaos of an expanding civil war.
Today these everyday scenes of ordinary people--pedicab drivers, street vendors, bar girls, police, politicians, prisoners--tell a story of national resilience and dignity in the midst of enveloping poverty, repression, and fear.
www.ucpress.edu /books/pages/10122.html   (904 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Tips, Shanghai, China
In Shanghai, if you accidentally bump into a tree, and still luckily have your head intact, please remember that nine out of ten tree in Shanghai is: the French Parasol tree.
Open since the year 2000, the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Hall is one of the ultra-modern pieces of architecture that you will find within the grounds of the People's Park...
One of the best galleries in the Shanghai Museum is dedicated to the history of porcelain and ceramics, of which the colorful dragon you see pictured here is a brilliant example...
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Asia/China/Shanghai_Shi/Shanghai-1003464/Things_To_Do-Shanghai-MISC-BR-2.html   (1185 words)

  
 Duolún Lù Culture Street (Duolún Lù Wénhuà Jie) | Museum/Attraction Review | ...
The stately brick homes and shops on this 1/2-mile (.8km) stretch of the street have been preserved and refurbished, and cars are now banned, making it a fine pedestrian mall of bookshops, teahouses, antiques shops, and historic homes.
The street curves to the right, passing the stately bell tower Xi Shí Zhong Lóu (no. 119); the wonderful Old Film Café (no. 123) where you can sip coffee while watching old Chinese movies from the 1920s and 1930s; and antiques and curio shops selling everything from art to Máo memorabilia.
The street is not really worth a special trip out here, but if you're interested in Shànghai's colonial architecture, or if your travels take you to Hóngkou, then Duolún Lù is a must.
www.frommers.com /destinations/shanghai/A32187.html   (527 words)

  
 Wall Street Journal: Shanghai Police Shut Down Almost 200 Internet Bars | Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
Shanghai police have shut down almost 200 Internet bars that operated without licenses requiring them to block Web sites deemed subversive or pornographic, a city official said Monday.
Police in China's largest city confiscated 965 computers in a sweep that began April 26, said the official in the Shanghai Industrial and Commercial Administration Bureau, which ordered the crackdown.
The 197 bars closed in the sweep were located in residential neighbourhoods overlooked in previous crackdowns, said the official, who refused to give his name.
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200205/4501.html   (355 words)

  
 Aminul Hassan from Dhaka's Shangha Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Shanghai has very few line may be 3.
Nanjing, Huahai, Sipin, Sichuan, Tibet etc. Shanghai has many road named after Chinese cities.
Shanghai : Tonjli, 2 hrs journey from Shanghai.
www.greatestcities.com /users/aminul/Asia/China/Shanghai/Shanghai   (228 words)

  
 Slide show on The Pearl of Orient - Shanghai, China - ST Fan's Web World
The Yu Yuan Garden of Shanghai and the Orient Pearl TV Tower of Pudong across Huangpu River, China.
Pearl of The Orient - Shanghai 8 of 13
Night scene of a modern street in Shanghai.
www.stsite.com /Shanghai/show.php?directory=.¤tPic=7   (186 words)

  
 Travel Resources for China from office1000.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The City Hotel Shanghai is situated in the heart of downtown Shanghai, adjacent to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, approximately seven miles from Hong Qiao International Airport.
Shanghai Baolong Hotel is a 4-star hotel with north building of 20-story and the south building of 11-story, providing 374 rooms, elegant enviroment, exquisite Chinese and Westen-style food, convenient access to local business center, shopping center and leisure activities.
The Howard Johnson Plaza Shanghai is situated in the heart of the financial district, approximately 35 miles from Pudong International Airport.
travel.office1000.com /China.html   (6038 words)

  
 Directory Detail - ThingsAsian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
An interesting shopping experience for young and old alike can be found on Old Shanghai street and the surrounding neighborhood.
Turning west at the end of Old Jiaochang road brings you down a very touristy street with an Old China feel where you'll be hounded to buy chops, old posters, tea and knick-knacks of all sorts.
Old Shanghai street itself takes up the northwest quarter of the neighborhood, and has a variety of cool restaurants and interesting gardens, ponds, and Chinese architecture.
www.thingsasian.com /goto_travel/dir_detail.15.812.html   (162 words)

  
 "China's Number One Street" , Shanghai, Regent Tour China
The advent of the 1990s saw the ongoing efforts of Shanghai in maintaining its image as a tourist metropolis for visitors from other parts of China as well as foreign countries.
On the one hand, long-established stores and old famed restaurants have recovered their youthful vigor and their business continues to thrive as never before.
As an international shoppers' paradise, often referred to as the "Paris of the East," Shanghai proffers many of the most exquisite goods in the world.
www.regenttour.com /chinaplanner/sha/sha-shopping-no1.htm   (271 words)

  
 Shanghai Photos: City View
Shanghai is a great destination for shoppers, among which Nanjing Road is the most well known.
This premier shopping street has become a must-see metropolitan destination for fashion-seeking shoppers.
By contrast, to know how the local live, you can roam around quiet lanes to get a more complete view of this charming city.
www.travelchinaguide.com /picture/shanghai/city_street   (73 words)

  
 Shanghai Travel Guide: Nanjing Road
China's premier shopping street, 3.4-mile-long Nanjing Road, starts at the Bund in the east and ends in the west at the junction of Jingan Temple and Yan'an West Street.
After the Opium War (1839-1842), Shanghai became a treaty port.
Importing large quantities of foreign goods, it became the earliest shopping street in Shanghai.
www.travelchinaguide.com /attraction/shanghai/nanjing_road.htm   (330 words)

  
 A Tale of Three Cities
It was the most deserted garden; it was the most crowded shopping bazaar
It was the most historical Catholic Cathedral in Shanghai; it was the worst sound system
It was the best day at Shanghai; it was the hottest fire pot
www.swoo.com /2002/3cities   (583 words)

  
 Shanghai Street Racer for PC - Technical Information, Game Information, Technical Support - Gamespot
Shanghai Street Racer for PC Shanghai Street Racer Summary
Need for Speed Underground 2 is pretty good, but unfortunately most of the stuff you do in between races keeps you away from the game's best moments.
When you slam the pedal to the floor and kick one of these high-priced monstersinto first gear, you will feel like you're out on the track bumping andscraping with the big boys.
www.gamespot.com /pc/driving/shanghaistreetracer/techinfo.html   (166 words)

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