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China: The Panorama Hotel (left) and the Shanghai Bund International Tower (centre), Shanghai (c. 2000 CE).

Shanghai began life as a fishing village, and later as a port receiving goods carried down the Yangzi River. From 1842 onwards, in the aftermath of the first Opium War, the British opened a ‘concession’ in Shanghai where drug dealers and other traders could operate undisturbed. French, Italians, Germans, Americans and Japanese all followed. By the 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai was a boom town and an international byword for dissipation. When the Communists won power in 1949, they transformed Shanghai into a model of the Revolution.
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Title:
China: The Panorama Hotel (left) and the Shanghai Bund International Tower (centre), Shanghai (c. 2000 CE).
Caption:
Shanghai began life as a fishing village, and later as a port receiving goods carried down the Yangzi River. From 1842 onwards, in the aftermath of the first Opium War, the British opened a ‘concession’ in Shanghai where drug dealers and other traders could operate undisturbed. French, Italians, Germans, Americans and Japanese all followed. By the 1920s and 1930s, Shanghai was a boom town and an international byword for dissipation. When the Communists won power in 1949, they transformed Shanghai into a model of the Revolution.
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Album / David Henley/Pictures from History/Universal Images Group
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5100 x 3268 px | 47.7 MB
Print size:
43.2 x 27.7 cm | 17.0 x 10.9 in (300 dpi)
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