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
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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

• 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.

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

Historical books online

• 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