{"id":43,"date":"2015-12-06T00:33:14","date_gmt":"2015-12-05T16:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudnix10.netinfiniti.net\/portcitiesasia\/?page_id=43"},"modified":"2020-01-04T09:07:56","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T09:07:56","slug":"shanghai","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shanghai, sixth city of the World!
\nShanghai, the Paris of the East!
\nShanghai, the New York of the West!
\nShanghai, the most cosmopolitan city in the world, the fishing villages on a mudflat which almost literally overnight became a great metropolis. (All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook,\u00a0<\/em>OUP, 1934-5)<\/p>\n

Shanghai boasts\u00a0one of the most readily recognizable waterfronts in the world, and yet the history of this port city is complex and often contested. While there’s a current nostalgia for ‘old Shanghai’, the treaty port system that allowed this port to flourish was a legacy of China’s turbulent relationship with the West in the 19th century.<\/p>\n

Let’s look ‘beyond the Bund’ to explore Shanghai as a port city…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shanghai, sixth city of the World! Shanghai, the Paris of the East! Shanghai, the New York of the West! Shanghai, the most cosmopolitan city in the world, the fishing villages on a mudflat which almost literally overnight became a great metropolis. (All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook,\u00a0OUP, 1934-5) Shanghai boasts\u00a0one of the most readily recognizable … Continue reading Shanghai<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/portcities.asia\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}