Shanghai

Shanghai
[[Image: Pudong Waterfront, Shanghai |250px| ]]
Presidency:
Coordinates:	31.202462°N, 121.49743°E
Altitude:	4 m (13 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Shanghai
State/Province:	Shanghai Metropolitan Area
Country:	China
Transport links

Shanghai, the largest centre of commerce and finance in China, is situated at the mouth of the Yangtse River. First opened as a treaty port following the 1st China War, it became a multinational business hub by the 1930s.

History

Capture of Shanghai 1842
Battle of Shanghai 1860

Records

• Shanghai Ancestors from China Coast Family History, Chinese Customs Project, University of Bristol has various information, including a number of useful databases, on its website which may assist in the search for European ancestors. These databases include a searchable named index of Chinese probates, cemetery information and directory extracts. Also includes an alphabetical database of names for Shanghai Municipal Police.

External links

• History of Shanghai Wikipedia
  
• Virtual Shanghai is a project of an academic partnership whose project director Christian Henriot is at the Institut d'Asie Orientale, University of Lyon. Includes Maps, Images, E books and papers including
  • "The Colonial Space of Death in Shanghai (1844-1949)" by Christian Henriot 2007
• Graham Earnshaw's Tales of Old Shanghai, now an archived website. Includes
  • Online Library
  • Maps
• Shanghai’s Lost Foreigner Cemeteries by Eric N. Danielson 10 April 2011 from his website YangziMan: Adventures in China, now an archived website.
• Bubbling Well Road Cemetery Find A Grave. List of names.
• Photograph: Bubbling Well Cemetery, Shanghai from www.virtualshanghai.net
• B is for … Bubbling Well Road, Shanghai by Robert Bickers March 13, 2012 from the University of Bristol’s Visualising China Blog
• Photographs: British Shanghai, one of DBHKer’s galleries on flickr.com
• The Shanghai Volunteer Corps by Robert Bickers. 19 April 2013 robertbickers.net
• Sikhs in Shanghai
• "The Raj on Nanjing Road: Sikh Policemen in Treaty-Port Shanghai" by Isabella Jackson Modern Asian Studies March 2013, pp 1 – 33
• Doctor Smolnikoff's memoir: My Sikhs : Translated extracts from Victor Smolnikoff 's memoir of the 1940s in Shanghai (written in the 1970s in Russia). He worked as a doctor until 1954 in Shanghai, when he and his family were repatriated to the Soviet Union. avezink.livejournal.com. Most Sikhs were in the employ of the Shanghai Municipal Police.

Historical books online

• Shanghai : a handbook for travellers and residents to the chief objects of interest in and around the foreign settlements and native city by Rev C E Darwent, Minister of Union Church, Shanghai 1904 Archive.org with a
  • 1904 Map of the Foreign Settlements at Shanghai (in sections)
• Twentieth century impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China: their history, people, commerce, industries, and resources by Arnold Wright 1908 Archive.org
• Historic Shanghai by C A Montalto de Jesus 1909 Archive.org
• "Shanghai" , page 102 The Travelers' Handbook for China (including Hongkong) by Carl Crow. Third Edition, Revised 1921 Archive.org
  • Plan of the Foreign Settlements, Shanghai
• Shanghai: City For Sale Ernest O. Hauser 1940 Archive.org
• Digital Book originals Visual Cultures in East Asia, a website connected with Virtual Shanghai, (refer above). The books are mainly connected with Shanghai and include a number of Handbooks for travellers and residents. Pdf downloads.