Shanghai Essays

  • Shanghai Case Study

    1663 Words  | 4 Pages

    that was going on during the B.C and A.D years, but one thing I learn more about china is that they have a beautiful city of Shanghai. I really learn a lot about Shanghai. Learning that they would have to fight to protect their city over the years. No matter how much they fail they came back up to make their city great again. The topic I’m going to talk about is how Shanghai was force in the trade culture and how trade have help them over the years. Now I’m going to give you a brief history

  • Battle Of Shanghai Essay

    1419 Words  | 3 Pages

    Airplanes have played a crucial role in the Battle of Shanghai, from killing hundreds of thousands of people. The destruction caused by the dropping of bombs on cities and major cites. After the defeat of China by Great Britain in the second Opium War (1838-1942), as part of the concession under the Treaty of Nanjing, British troops occupied parts of Shanghai. Great Britain declared Shanghai’s ports open to foreign trade .As commerce grew what, was once a small walled town surrounded by poor villages

  • Law and Order in Shanghai in 19th and Early 20th Century

    3089 Words  | 7 Pages

    Shanghai in the 19th and early 20th century was a unique city. The combination of its status as an entrepôt, the complexity of its society, and the very existence of the International and French concessions all contributed heavily to the difficulty of protecting law and order within the city. The focus here is on the political and civic; the French Concession is not a major object of concern, as it was subject to many of the same vicissitudes and issues as the International Settlement, and differs

  • Cultural Impact Of The May Fourth Movement

    1258 Words  | 3 Pages

    an incident which causes both of them to get fired and made the landlord to shut them down.” (Muzhi 1937) This scene can also be seen as an urbanization change throughout Shanghai. When the May Fourth Movement ended, many people started moving towards the city, creating demand for buildings to be made. Although citizens in Shanghai were having a hard time to pay their

  • Book Report on the Chinese Cinderella

    1223 Words  | 3 Pages

    Chinese Cinderella Book Report Summery: Chinese Cinderella is about I girl named Adeline Yen Mah growing up in an unloving family. Adeline's mother died from an illness caused by her birth. After her mother died, her whole family blamed Adeline for her mothers death and claimed she had "bad blood." The only people who truly loved her was her grandfather, Ye Ye, her grandmother, Nai Nai, and her aunt, Baba. Everyone else would tease her, steal from her, and call her names. Since Adeline and her

  • Love in a Fallen City

    689 Words  | 2 Pages

    writers of twentieth- century in China. She was born into an aristocratic family in Shanghai. Chang’s grandfather is Hang peilun who is son in law to Li hongzhang, an influential official in Qing dynasty. Her grandmother Li juyu is the oldest daughter of Li hongzhang. Chang studied literature at the university of Hong Kong. However, in 1941 Japanese attacked on Shanghai, and she had to returned to occupied Shanghai. At that time, she was able to publish some stories and essays which made her to be

  • Stages of Nien Cheng's Life

    795 Words  | 2 Pages

    Nien Cheng is the author of the autobiography, Life and Death in Shanghai. This book takes place in Shanghai, China, starting around the first few days into the Cultural Revolution. Nien Cheng was a widow in her 50's working as a senior partner for Shell in Shanghai. In late 1966, Nien Cheng was arrested and her house lay looted and vandalized. She was sent to the No.1 Detention House, where staying for six and one-half years, she was punished and pressured for a false confession that she was a spy

  • Theme Of The Destination By Wang Anyi

    1006 Words  | 3 Pages

    No Going Back “It was not easy to live in Shanghai” (Anyi 137). This line, echoed throughout Wang Anyi 's short piece “The Destination” is the glowing heartbeat of the story. A refrain filled with both longing and sadness, it hints at the many struggles faced by thousands upon thousands trying to get by in the city of Shanghai. One of these lost souls, the protagonist, Chen Xin, was one of the many youths taken from his family and sent to live the in the countryside during the Cultural Revolution

  • Traditional vs. Modern Architecture in China

    1940 Words  | 4 Pages

    Question: Traditional culture in architecture is being eroded by modernity of the present architecture in China. Analyze the causes and effects of this problem and possible solutions. In China, urbanization is at dramatic pace but in static patterns. This leads to the Chinese cities losing their own styles, and being built in the static architecture modes which are introduced from developed countries. Moreover, the traditional architecture cultures are being eroded by the static modern architecture

  • The Shanghai Massacre

    1278 Words  | 3 Pages

    12th, 1936, before the Second Sino-Japanese War between the China and the Japan. Many historians believe that, without the Xi’an incident, the Chinese Communist Party may have been defeated by the Kuomintang during the Chinese Civil War. Due to the Shanghai Massacre, the “Long March” and other exterminating events led and caused by the Chiang Kai-shek’s government, the influence of the Chinese Communist Party was diminished and eliminated in the thirties. However, the Xi’an Incident had offered Mao

  • The Shanghai Quartet

    501 Words  | 2 Pages

    93th street. The date of the event was on October 23, 2017 (Monday) at 7:30 pm and lasted two hours until 9:30 pm. The group that played was a string quartet called Shanghai Quartet. The members of the Shanghai Quartet were Honggang Li (violist), Nicholas Tzavaras (cellist), Weigang Li (violinist) and Yi-wen Jiang (violinist). The Shanghai Quartet is one of the world’s foremost chamber ensembles that have meld Eastern music allowing it to cross with other musical genres including traditional Chinese

  • China's One-Child Policy: An Analysis of Overpopulation

    2008 Words  | 5 Pages

    Have you ever considered how your mother birthed you, going on you in her paunch for nine months in progression, losing her flawlessness even to the point wherein her always breaking points are continually up in context of you. in any case, in the mediating time always welcoming the main thing that she is passing specifically in the judicious world. That is not how China longings it 's mothers to be. China has dependably been one of the extraordinary nations as of late as its standing huge inconveniences

  • The Positive Impact of Globalization Upon China and India

    1403 Words  | 3 Pages

    To globalize means to “to extend to other or all parts of the globe; make worldwide” (Dictionary.com, 2010). While globalization is a fairly ‘new’ term, it is actually as old as our ancestors. The process was longer back then but, as they were discovering new foreign lands, they were bringing commerce and culture with them. Silks, spices and crops were traded along trade routes and opened new worlds of luxury and taste. Today, globalization has influenced our modern world far beyond those predecessors’

  • The Positive Effects Of Deng Xiaoping's Impact On China

    1310 Words  | 3 Pages

    After Mao Zedong’s failed Cultural Revolution, the country was in a state of disarray. Political isolation had caused the economy to falter, while citizens struggled everyday to adhere to communist ideals. Collectivization and municipalization ran the nation, meaning the government had total control over the country which left citizens without a chance of earning their own money or providing for themselves. In turn, the quality of life in China decreased and riots began to break out. Deng Xiaoping

  • Christian Influence on Shanghai

    1223 Words  | 3 Pages

    mind when discussing Shanghai, but they are nonetheless an important part of Shanghai's culture and history. The presence of the Christian church contributed greatly to the cosmopolitanism of Shanghai. Some of the first Westerners to live in Shanghai were missionaries and they played an important role in constructing an enticing image of Shanghai. Moreover, Christian institutions of education continue their contribution to Shanghai cosmopolitanism today. In addition, Shanghai is comparatively more

  • Shanghai International Settlement

    877 Words  | 2 Pages

    Capital, the novel takes place in the International Settlement of Shanghai after WWI, during the 1920’s. Within the international settlement a battle between the Chinese Communist Laborers, the European, the American, the Japanese, and the Chinese financial oligarchies rages for supremacy of Shanghai’s financial markets. The financial oligarchy according to Lenin, is the major owners of capital . Koya was a Japanese born Shanghai resident and was a member of the Forestry Division of the Muramatsu

  • Feminism In Shanghai Baby

    3085 Words  | 7 Pages

    group and is noted for her controversial novel Shanghai Baby (1999). The novel is about a Shanghainese woman trying to separate love for her impotent boyfriend and sexual desire for a Westerner. However, after looking deeper into the novel it is noticeable that it was written and marketed in a way that is aimed more towards public consumption instead of female empowerment. Through the emergence of the Internet, changing economy and youth culture, Shanghai Baby is marketed to the masses by means of exploiting

  • Advantages and Problems for a City Being a Transport Hub

    1931 Words  | 4 Pages

    congestion and environmental impacts. Shanghai and Tokyo, both are regional and national transport hub, will be investigated. Both share some common characteristics, for example, they have a huge number of population, they have more than one airport. But due to different government reactions, they have different results. They pay different costs of transport hub, which they have unlike level of congestion and environmental impacts. In this report, Shanghai is transport hub in a developing country

  • The Push and Pull of Shanghai, China

    564 Words  | 2 Pages

    social and problems are reasons of migration. Mankind often migrates to modern, rich, multicultural countries, towns with high economy and good standard of living such as Prague, Germany, London, Los-Angeles, New York and shanghai. I would like to draw on the city Shanghai. Shanghai is one of the most cities with developed economy due to this many people come to the town to find work. During 1983 and 2000 years the number of migrant workers increased from 0.5 million people to 3.87 million people. A

  • Chinese Cinderella: A Tale of Survival in Shanghai

    528 Words  | 2 Pages

    The book starts out in Shanghai China in the year 1942 where we are introduced to Ye Xian, also called Chinese Cinderella or for short CC is the protagonist of the story. She is kind, smart and playful. She lives in China and tells the story through her own eyes. CC is around twelve years old and was thrown out of her home because of an argument with her stepmom, the antagonist of the story. The stepmom is evil, arrogant and self absorbed. Lost in Shanghai with no place to go, CC wants to go to