Shanghai: Century Shanghai: Panoramic China

Author: Song Chao
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Publish Date: 2006-01-01
Features: It is not difficult to gain a snapshot understanding of China's past and present, but to gain a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of China is not something that can be achieved overnight. In this regard, the "Panoramic China" series aims to help readers, especially foreign readers. The outstanding feature of this series is that it publishes several books as units of provinces, cities, and districts, each book being self-contained, introducing the most distinctive highlights of various places from different perspectives, rich in text and images. Through these highlights, readers can understand the authentic and vibrant daily life, colorful social landscape, developing economic conditions, and related information of the local areas.
As a city, Shanghai is only about 700 years old, and its history as a well-known international metropolis is even shorter—just over a century. During that time, Shanghai has experienced many vicissitudes, its rise and prosperity becoming the stuff of legend. Being near the sea and reflecting this in its name, since the beginning of modern Chinese history, Shanghai has become the most vibrant and most internationalized place in China's modernization process. It is the epitome of modern, fast-changing China. Today, Shanghai attracts more and more attention from all over the world. The Legend continues.