Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Chinese term or phrase:
上海开埠
English translation:
Shanghai opened its doors to trade
Added to glossary by
Paul Hirsh
Jan 24, 2006 02:03
18 yrs ago
Chinese term
上海开埠
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它是上海开埠以来乃至全国第一家西商饭店,被誉为“上海著名的里程碑建筑”。
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since Shanghai opened its doors to trade
least laboured translation
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Note added at 7 hrs (2006-01-24 09:42:47 GMT)
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or: since Shanghai opened its port to trade
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Note added at 7 hrs (2006-01-24 09:42:47 GMT)
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or: since Shanghai opened its port to trade
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opening of ports
Shanghai's opening
of commercial ports
of commercial ports
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Philip Tang
: Shanghai's opening as a commercial port!
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Thanks.
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licullen
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Thanks.
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Lu Zou
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Thanks.
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Last Hermit
: There's no such 'portS'. Shanghai as a whole opened to Western trade.
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You are right. Thanks!
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Shanghai opened as a trade port to the outside world
FYI
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the launch of Shanghai as a mart on the bank of a seacoast
the launch of Shanghai as a mart on the bank of a seacoast
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Just this:
In the history of Shanghai.
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asphodel
: Unless it's really talking about the history of the port, it's just a figure of speech. There's no need to be too literal.
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Crown/Cited as blah blah, this establishment has been the first...since YYYY, when Shanghai as the first Chinese port opened to Western trade.
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Note added at 2 days14 hrs (2006-01-26 16:10:39 GMT)
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also spelled Shang-hai, city, and province-level shih (municipality), east-central China. It is one of the world's largest seaports and a major industrial and commercial centre of China. The city is located on the coast of the East China Sea between the mouth of the Yangtze River to the north and the bays of Hangchow and Yü-p'an to the south. The municipality covers a total area of 2,383 square miles (6,185 square kilometres), which includes the city itself, surrounding suburbs, and an agricultural hinterland; it is also China's most populous urban area.
--Excerpted from the EB
Shanghai was the first Chinese port to be opened to Western trade, and it long dominated the nation's commerce. Since the Communist victory in 1949, however, it has become an industrial giant whose products supply China's growing domestic demands. The city has also undergone extensive physical changes with the establishment of industrial suburbs and housing complexes, the improvementof public works, and the provision of parks and other recreational facilities. Shanghai has attempted to eradicatethe economic and psychological legacies of its exploited past through physical and social transformation to support its major role in the modernization of China.
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also spelled Shang-hai, city, and province-level shih (municipality), east-central China. It is one of the world's largest seaports and a major industrial and commercial centre of China. The city is located on the coast of the East China Sea between the mouth of the Yangtze River to the north and the bays of Hangchow and Yü-p'an to the south. The municipality covers a total area of 2,383 square miles (6,185 square kilometres), which includes the city itself, surrounding suburbs, and an agricultural hinterland; it is also China's most populous urban area.
--Excerpted from the EB
Shanghai was the first Chinese port to be opened to Western trade, and it long dominated the nation's commerce. Since the Communist victory in 1949, however, it has become an industrial giant whose products supply China's growing domestic demands. The city has also undergone extensive physical changes with the establishment of industrial suburbs and housing complexes, the improvementof public works, and the provision of parks and other recreational facilities. Shanghai has attempted to eradicatethe economic and psychological legacies of its exploited past through physical and social transformation to support its major role in the modernization of China.
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Xiaoping Fu
: One of the first Chinese ports?
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As per the EB. Read above. But I could be wrong as I am very ignorant about history. Then again, ignorance is a bliss, as they say.
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