Shanghai
Details
- Names
Shanghai
Shang-hai
Chang-hai
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Largest city in China; prospered after 1840; one of first five treaty ports; attacked by Japanese 1932; scene of severe fighting during Japanese-Chinese War 1937; controlled by Japanese 1941; restored to China 1945; taken by Communists 1949.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Cambridge World Gazetteer (1988); Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998); Petit Robert II, Noms (1989); Rand McNally Atlas (Reprinted 1994); Times Atlas of the World (1985); Times Atlas of the World (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984);
- Born
Mark di Suvero (American, born China, active United States and France, born 1933)
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