Nanshi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南市.

Proper noun

Nanshi

1. (historical) A district of Shanghai, China.
   • [1978, Lynn T. White, III, “Citizenship Incentives”, in Careers in Shanghai: The Social Guidance of Personal Energies in a Developing Chinese City, 1949-1966‎^[1], Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 88:

     Some peasants may have come to teach them how to use a hoe and when to plant, but most of their contacts were with other city people. In 1965, a group of 150 volunteers from Nanshih District, Shanghai, founded the Hsints’un (New Village) Brigade, in T’aochuang Commune of Chiashan County, Chekiang.]

   • 1996 February 1, Elaine Chan, “Nanshi plans cable car project”, in South China Morning Post‎^[2], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 February 2024‎^[3]:

     SHANGHAI'S Nanshi district, which includes the southern Bund area, plans to build a cable car system to Pudong across the Huangpu River to boost retail activities on both banks.

   • 2000 April 16, Craig S. Smith, “WHAT'S DOING IN Shanghai”, in The New York Times‎^[4], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, WHAT'S DOING IN‎^[5]:

     Farther east is Nanshi, the original walled city of Shanghai. The circular wall is long gone; a road has replaced it. Visitors usually go to the maze of mostly rebuilt Qing dynasty buildings around the Temple of the City God and Yu Yuan Garden.

Synonyms

• Nantao

Translations

district

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 南市

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can