Shang-hai

See also: shanghai, Shanghai, Shanghái, shānghài, Shanghaï, Shànghǎi, and Shang-Haï

English

Map including SHANG-HAI (SHANGHAI) (AMS, 1955)

Proper noun

Shang-hai

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of Shanghai
   • 1844, “The Voyages and Services of the Nemesis”, in The English Review; or, Quarterly Journal of Ecclesiastical and General Literature‎^[1], volume I, London: Francis & John Rivington, →OCLC, page 210:

     Shang-hai, in the province of Kiang-nan, is situated on the western bank of the river Wu-sung, about 9 miles from its outlet into the great Yang-tse Kiang. It is connected, by an elaborate system of inland navigation, with all the principal cities of the province, among which is Su-chau-fu, the most important manufacturing town of the empire. It must necessarily, therefore, serve as the entrepôt of a considerable export and import trade. Its population is rated at 300,000. Shang-hai is in latitude 31° 12’ N., and about 800 miles from Hong Kong.

   • 1889, Jules Verne, translated by Virginia Champlin, The Adventures of a Chinaman in China‎^[2], Lee and Shepard, →OCLC, page 16:

     His father, Tchoung-Heou, was living at Pekin when he was born ; and he was six years old when the former settled at Shang-hai.

   • 1952, Leonard M. Outerbridge, The Lost Churches of China‎^[3], Philadelphia: Westminster Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 38–39:

     Wylie personally examined the monument in Sian-fu and published a translation of the inscription in Shang-hai in 1854.

   • 1981, E. V. Thompson, The Dream Traders‎^[4], Macmillian, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 229:

     He waved towards a giant of a man who stood grinning at the edge of the pirate band. "He spent many years breaking in new girls for the most celebrated whorehouse in Shang-hai. They still call for his services when he is available. Ah! But he is a master at his chosen craft. . . ."

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Shang-hai.

Further reading

• “Languages Other than English”, in The Chicago Manual of Style‎^[5], Seventeenth edition, University of Chicago Press, 2017, →DOI, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 652: “Wade-Giles Postal atlas Pinyin Shang-hai Shanghai Shanghai”