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25 unusual facts about Shanghai


Abacus 5

Abacus 5 is an action sports manufacturing and distribution company that is based out of Shanghai, China.

An Chang-ho

He established the Young Korean Academy (흥사단; 興士團) in San Francisco in 1913 and was a key member in the founding of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea in Shanghai in 1919.

Avient Aviation Flight 324

It was the sistership of HL7373, the MD-11F which crashed in Xinzhuang, Shanghai when operating Korean Air Cargo Flight 6316 in 1999.

Bethuel Kitchen

He died in Shanghai, West Virginia on December 15, 1895 and was interned there in Presbyterian Churchyard.

Black Cat Squadron

Colonel Lu was born in Shanghai on December 27, 1923 and completed his training in the US.

Charles Lennox Richardson

Charles Lennox Richardson (16 April 1834 – 14 September 1862) was an English merchant based in Shanghai who was killed in Japan during the Namamugi Incident.

Chinese Consulate-General, Los Angeles

He was identified as a 67-year-old activist from Shanghai, who was part of a group protest, at the consulate, against China's human rights record.

Corrupt Absolute

The bands 2007 China tour consisted of 6 Concerts in Shanghai & Beijing & climaxed at The 8th Annual Midi Modern Music Festival in Beijing.

CSCL

China Shipping Container Lines, a containerized marine shipping company, based in Shanghai China.

Edward Harper Parker

He intended to engage in the tea trade, studied Chinese, and from 1869 to 1871, in the character of student interpreter, he traveled in Mongolia, and afterwards he served in British consulates at Wenchow, Fusan, and Shanghai, and traveled in Oceania, Eastern Asia, and North America.

George Ruebner

Ruebner, a wing, was born in Shanghai and claimed a total of 2 international caps for Australia.

Harvard Summit for Young Leaders in China

For HSYLC 2010, the program plans to run two conferences, one in both Shanghai and Beijing.

HSYLC 2006, supported by the Goldman Sachs Foundation and American Airlines, recruited 37 Harvard students to create and teach a curriculum at a school in Shanghai.

History of Korea

The Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea was established in Shanghai, China, in the aftermath of March 1 Movement, which coordinated the Liberation effort and resistance against Japanese control.

Johor Bahru Prison

The Johor Bahru Prison was designed by the then sultan, Sultan Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Abu Bakar ibni Almarhum Daeng Ibrahim, who visited the prisons in Shanghai and Osaka to study the physical condition and design of their prisons.

Laticrete International, Inc.

Ltd in the Songjiang District of Shanghai represents the first wholly owned Laticrete manufacturing facility outside the United States.

Malaysia Airlines fleet

The airline deployed these aircraft to fly medium-to-long-haul routes, such as Auckland, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Tokyo and Shanghai.

Oriental Pearl Tower

On 7 July 2007, Oriental Pearl Tower was host to the Chinese Live Earth concert.

Paul Tsuchihashi

After completing studies in Paris, Tsuchihashi was assigned to Shanghai and the observatory at She Shan Hill (Zose).

Pyotr Gusev

He set up the first ballet academies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou and also taught the first generation of Chinese ballet dancers in those institutions.

Renji Hospital

Now Renji Hospital has three parts, the west part is the old place in Puxi, the east part is in Pudong New Area, and the south part is in Pujiang Town, Minhang District.

Robert Chancellor Nesbitt

Nesbitt became an advocate on the Shanghai Bar, and from 1909 to 1926 was a member of the Council of the Law Society.

Sandhya Mridul

In 2008, she served as a member of the jury in the 14th Television Festival held in Shanghai.

Shanghai Restoration Project

The group's first eponymous release, inspired by the Shanghai jazz bands of the 1930s, combines traditional Chinese instruments with modern hip-hop and electronica.

Yuan Shansong

During the rebellion of Sun En in 399, he died defending Hudu (in the western suburbs of modern Shanghai).


A Jewish Girl in Shanghai

During the Second World War, approximately 20,000 Jewish refugees fleeing German-occupied Europe were given an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou District of Shanghai by the Japanese Empire, designated the Restricted Sector for Stateless Refugees, one of the poorest and most overcrowded areas of the city.

Acerno

Andrea Angelo Zottoli, sinologist and Jesuit missionary, was born in Acerno in 1826 and died in Shanghai in 1902.

Ames High School

Jeroen van de Weijer, Professor of English Linguistics at Shanghai International Studies University

An Wang

A native of Kunshan County in Suzhou Prefecture, he was born in Shanghai, China, and graduated from Chiao Tung University with a degree in electrical engineering in 1940.

Arthur Kleinman

This book has been translated and published in Chinese editions both in Shanghai and Taipei.

Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists

In May 2009, ACAMS signed an agreement with Fudan University in Shanghai to jointly provide anti-money laundering training throughout mainland China.

Baishatuo Railway Bridge

Completed in 1960, the bridge was the first bridge over the Yangzte River in Chongqing and only the second bridge along the main stretch of the river between Yibin and the river mouth in Shanghai.

Boucheron

The distribution network of Boucheron is made of 34 shops located all over the world (Paris, Cannes, Saint-Tropez, Monaco, Beirut, London, San Francisco, Tokyo, Saitama, Yokohama, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Okayama, Nagoya, Taipei, Seoul, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Dubai, Baku, Moscow and Almaty) and over 100 certified retailers.

Bowdoin International Music Festival

Concerts feature Festival artists and guest artists such as Igor Begelman, Glenn Dicterow, Joan Kwuon, Joel Smirnoff, Sergiu Schwartz, Emma Tahmiazian, and the Ying and Shanghai Quartets.

Celso Benigno Luigi Costantini

During his time in China, he called the first episcopal conference in Shanghai in 1924, made constitutions for the mission in China, helped the foundation of Fu Jen Catholic University and the episcopal promotion of six Chinese priests, and instituted several regional major seminaries.

China Railways DF11

locomotive named " Zhou Enlai No. "(license number to Zhou year of birth name), belonging to Shanghai Railway Administration Shanghai Locomotive Depot.

Craig S. Smith

He joined The New York Times as Shanghai bureau chief in 2000 and wrote extensively about the practice of harvesting organs from executed prisoners in China.

Cundall Johnston and Partners

Founded in Newcastle and Edinburgh, Cundall now has United Kingdom offices in London, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Manchester, with Australian offices in Sydney, Perth, Melbourne and Adelaide plus offices in Dubai, Doha, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Cyprus in Paphos and Nicosia, Madrid, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest in Romania.

Dai Wangshu

After the war, he returned to Shanghai and then Beijing, and died there having accidentally overdosed on the ephedrine he took to control his asthma.

Erich Bloedorn

Bloedorn retired from the Reichswehr in 1930 to serve on the General Staff of former Generaloberst Hans von Seeckt, who served as a military advisor to Chiang Kai-shek in Nanking and Shanghai.

Gubei, Shanghai

Gubei is best known as an enclave of East Asian expatriates in Shanghai, including those from Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

Hang Lung Group

Seeing the success of the Shanghai projects, the Group continued to expand its business to others parts of the Mainland such as Shenyang, Jinan, Wuxi, Tianjin, Dalian, and Kunming.

Huadian Energy Company Limited

Huadian Energy Company Limited (SHA:900937 华电能源股份有限公司) is a Shanghai B share listed subsidiary of Huadian Group based in Harbin, Heilongjiang province.

Interactive Brokers

(IB) is a U.S. based online discount brokerage firm headquartered in Greenwich CT in the United States and with offices in Budapest, Chicago, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Mumbai, Shanghai, Saint Petersburg, Sydney, Tallinn, Tokyo, and Zug.

Jean-François Pouliot

Glimpses/Impressions is a film by Pouliot for the Canadian pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai.

Jervis B. Webb Company

The company headquarters is in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with offices and manufacturing plants internationally including Carlisle, South Carolina; Harbor Springs, Michigan; Boyne City, Michigan; Hamilton, Ontario; Northampton, England; Ludwigshafen, Germany; Palaiseau, France; Barcelona, Spain; Shanghai, China and Bangalore, India.

John Howkins

In 2006 Howkins became chairman of the John Howkins Research Centre on the Creative Economy, launched by the Shanghai Municipal Government at the Shanghai School of Creativity, Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Katharina Sieverding

While a Visiting Professor at the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou/Shanghai, Sieverding produced the film Shanghai (2002-2003).

Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies

The cooperation of the KazISS expanded and included Asian partners in China (Shanghai Institute for International Studies), India (Jawaharlal Nehru University) as well as Russia (the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, the Diplomatic Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation).

Liuzhou–Nanning Intercity Railway

It also connects with the Hengyang-Liuzhou Intercity Railway, allowing for diverse connections with distant destinations, such as Wuhan, Shanghai and Beijing.

Mann+Hummel

After Shanghai in 2007, Tešanj in Bosnia became their 21st site to achieve certification to ISO 14001.

Mystère à Shanghai

Mystère à Shanghai is a 1950 French crime film directed by Roger Blanc and starring Paul Bernard, Hélène Perdrière and Maurice Teynac.

No Sleep til Shanghai

The film gained wide acclaim and some shock from screening audiences at the Atlanta Film Festival as they reacted to the startling visage of Jamaican-American promoter Andrew Ballen speaking fluent Chinese on the Shanghai leg of the tour.

Paanch Ghantey Mien Paanch Crore

The film was slated to release on 8 June 2012 along with Dibakar Banerjee's Shanghai, but it has now has postponed to 10 August 2012 Eid release along with Salman Khan's Ek Tha Tiger.

Robert Ivy

He currently serves on the advisory board of four architecture schools—Tulane University, Mississippi State University, Auburn University’s Rural Studio and Tongji University School of Architecture and Urban Planning in Shanghai, China.

Seoul Lite

Six through eight-star hotels would have been located on the 108th-130th floors, surpassing the Park Hyatt Hotel (79th-93rd floors) in the Shanghai World Financial Center, as the highest hotel rooms in the world.

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation

Subsequent annual summits of the Shanghai Five group occurred in Almaty (Kazakhstan) in 1998, in Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan) in 1999, and in Dushanbe (Tajikistan) in 2000.

Shanghai Livingston American School

In 2001 former American Congressman from Louisiana Bob Livingston former US Congressman (Louisiana), seeking to gain permission to establish schools in the five cities where the United States has US Consulate which would provide an American style education, was given permission to establish a school in Shanghai.

Shanghai Metal Exchange

SHME is located in the city of Shanghai and its geographical location bridges the time gap between London Metal Exchange and New York Mercantile Exchange markets, thus enabling traders across the world to have a 24-hour access to futures contracts of non-ferrous metals.

Shanghai North Railway Station

The station was established as the Shanghai Railway Station in 1909 by the Qing government.

Shanghai Triad

Though perhaps less well known than some of Zhang Yimou's more celebrated films (notably Ju Dou, To Live and Raise the Red Lantern), Shanghai Triad was nevertheless generally praised by critics upon its release, with an 85% "fresh" rating on the review-database, Rotten Tomatoes.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

The 'W' Files

In the 1930s, Wisely returns to China from his overseas studies and runs a detective agency in Shanghai to investigate paranormal events.

The Postmodern Life of My Aunt

The film is set and was filmed in Shanghai and in Anshan, Liaoning, Northeast China (note: Anshan is the birthplace of director Ann Hui).

Transport in Macau

It was inaugurated on December 1995 and has since established a number of regulars flights between Macau and major cities in Northeast and Southeast Asia, for example Bangkok, Beijing, Kaohsiung, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Taipei, etc.

Transportation in the Philippines

After offering low fares to domestic destinations, Cebu Pacific launched its international operations on November 2001 and now flies to Bangkok, Busan, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, Macau, Osaka, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Taipei.

Vincent Lo

In association with Xu Kuangdi, a former Shanghai mayor, Han assisted Lo in gaining the right to develop a piece of land surrounding the hall where the Communist Party of China held its first meeting, now known as Xintiandi.

Lo assisted the league in dealing with the loan: Han Zheng was the Youth League secretary at the time, and is now mayor of Shanghai.

Walter Hillier

He was the brother of Edward Guy Hillier, one of the most respected bankers in the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank and its long-term manager in Peking (1889-1924).

Wooden Coaster - Fireball

Wooden Coaster - Fireball (Chinese: 谷木游龙) is a wooden roller coaster located at Happy Valley in Songjiang, Shanghai, China.

Zheng Kaimu

While Zheng Kaimu was born in Huangshi, Hubei he would move to Shanghai to join the Genbao Football Base where he spent several years studying before moving back to Hubei and joined the Wuhan Optics Valley youth team.