The study also claimed that public-funded schools in Shanghai have the highest educational quality in the world.

When later recounting his exploits to audiences, he claimed that his nickname until 1861 had been " Shanghai Bill ", a name given to him, he said, by The Red Legs ( because of his height and slim build ).

Some claimed that Clayton was picked by Teddy Weatherford for a job at the Canidrome ballroom in the French Concession in Shanghai.

The literary critic Christopher Hitchens, while noting that Malraux had spent almost no time in China, claimed that the novel " pointed up the increasing weight of Asia in world affairs ; it described epic moments of suffering and upheaval, in Shanghai especially ( it was nearly filmed by Sergei Eisenstein ); and it demonstrated a huge respect for Communism and for Communists while simultaneously evoking the tragedy of a revolution betrayed by Moscow.

White Rabbit claimed that counterfeit candies, known to exist in the Philippines, might have been the true culprits, and cited an independent report by the Shanghai affiliate of the Swiss-based SGS Group, the world's largest inspection and testing company, as saying that samples of candy ready to be exported overseas contained no toxic substances.

For example, it has been suggested that, in the early 20th century Shanghai, “ Western food, and in particular identifiably nourishing items like milk, became a symbol of a neo-traditional Chinese notion of family .”

In mainland China under the administration of the People's Republic of China, the cities of Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai and Chongqing are centrally-administered province-level regions, and they do not belong to any particular province.

Following was the Second Sino-Japanese War in particular the Battle of Shanghai would leave the major cultural art center borderline to a humanitarian crisis.

As another result of his friendship with Zhang, Hergé became increasingly aware of the problems of colonialism, in particular the Empire of Japan's advances into China, and the corrupt, exploitive International Settlement of Shanghai.

The Shanghai massacre of 1927 and the Night of the Long Knives of 1934, in which the leader of a political party turned against and liquidated a particular section or group within the party, are commonly called " purges " while mass expulsions on grounds of ethnic unreliability, such as the Crimean Tatars and the Japanese-American internment are not.

As a key university in Shanghai city, it is a comprehensive local university with salient features of teacher training and particular strength in liberal arts.

The Japanese, however, had been using ramp-bowed landing boats in the Second Sino-Japanese War since the summer of 1937 — boats that had come under intense scrutiny by the Navy and Marine Corps observers at Shanghai in particular.

Wu-speaking Chinese, in particular, are concentrated in southern Jiangsu, most of Zhejiang, Shanghai, and parts of southern Anhui, northern Fujian, and northeastern Jiangxi.

Each Han subgroup is generally associated with a particular region in China ; the Cantonese originated in western Guangdong, the Putian in Puxian, the Foochow in Fuzhou, the Hoklo in southern Fujian, the Chaoshan / Teochew in eastern Guangdong, the Hakka in eastern / central Guangdong and the Shanghainese in Shanghai.

Changzhou's traditional role has been that of a commercial center and in particular a distribution center for agricultural produce, which was shipped by canal to the north and later, to Shanghai.

The first is the " elitist coalition " or Shanghai clique which contains mainly officials who have risen from the more prosperous provinces.

In addition, conflicts have arisen in the relations of the central Party leaders with the few provincial-level Municipalities, most notably the municipal government of Shanghai and the rivalry between former Beijing mayor Chen Xitong and Jiang Zemin.

There are disputes as to exactly how the name should be interpreted, but Chinese historians have concluded that during the Tang Dynasty Shanghai was literally on the sea, hence the origin of the name.

The city of Shanghai itself does not have a separate and unique cuisine of its own, but modifies those of the surrounding provinces, such as Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Assassination attempts were alleged to have been made against Mao in Shanghai, from September 8 to September 10, 1971.

Cobb mandated Henzell & Co. of Shanghai ( which seems to have been run by a professor ) to represent OUP in that city.

The reasons for Zhou's sudden release may have been that Zhou was then the most senior Communist in Shanghai, that Chiang's efforts to exterminate the Shanghai Communists were highly secretive at the time, and that his execution would have been noticed as a violation of the cooperation agreement between the CCP and the KMT ( which was technically still in effect ).

By 2025, according to the Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia alone will have at least 10 megacities, including Mumbai, India ( 33 million ), Shanghai, China ( 27 million ), Karachi, Pakistan ( 26. 5 million ), Dhaka, Bangladesh ( 26 million ) and Jakarta, Indonesia ( 24. 9 million people ).

Many atrocities were reported to have been committed as the Japanese army advanced from Shanghai to Nanking.

What might have been an immense emotional loss was compensated for by Chiang Kai-shek moving his family to Shanghai.

The Shanghai Expeditionary Force was ordered to have the 16th and 9th Divisions move along Danyang-Jurong-Tangshan Highway and Jintan-Tianwangshi-Chunhuazhen Highway, with two additional contingents to cross the Yangtze at Jiangyin and Zhenjiang for a enveloping attack at the Canal and Peking-Pukou Railway in the north.

Mao's wife Jiang Qing, meanwhile, had formed an informal radical political alliance with Shanghai revolution organizer Wang Hongwen, who seems to have gained Mao's favour as a possible successor, as well as Shanghai Revolutionary Committee Chairman Zhang Chunqiao and propaganda writer Yao Wenyuan, all of whom were elevated to the Politburo by the 10th Congress.

Jiang was elevated to national politics in 1987, automatically becoming a member of the Politburo of the CPC Central Committee because it is customarily dictated that the Party Chief of Shanghai would also have a seat in the Politburo.

With track upgrades, service speeds have increased ; since 21 December 2008, a high-speed CRH2E sleeper train service even runs between Beijing and Shanghai.

Many new-generation Chinese authors who were the recipients of such government attention have been re-published in English and success in the western literary markets, namely Zhou Weihui's Shanghai Baby, Anchee Min's controversial memoir Red Azalea, Time Magazine banned-book covergirl Chun Sue's Beijing Doll, and Mian Mian's Candy.

It is the province with the highest population density in China, though the provincial-level municipalities of Shanghai, Beijing, and Tianjin have a higher density.

Suzhou and Wuxi, two southern cities of Jiangsu in close proximity to neighboring Shanghai, have since become particularly prosperous, being among the top 10 cities in China in gross domestic product and outstripping the provincial capital of Nanjing.

Projects that have used software from the Autodesk AEC division include the NASA Ames building, the San Francisco Bay Bridge, the Shanghai Tower, and New York ’ s Freedom Tower.

Han Chinese in Zhejiang and Shanghai have the highest concentration of Tai – Kadai types of Y haplotypes among all the Han populations in China, suggesting a possible expansion of Tai – Kadai peoples from southern China to Zhejiang via Jiangxi.

The album was followed by The Vanishing Race in 1993, which was supported by the hit single " Goodbye " produced by David Foster, with lyrics by Linda Thompson — which, although not popular in the United States, was critically praised and gained a large following outside the country, especially in Asia where in many countries they would reach number No. 1, and in Taiwan, Power Station & Terry Lin ( a huge fan of Air Supply himself ) covered it and cleverly called it " I'd rather love the sea / Shanghai rather than loving you " ( 愛上你不如愛上 海 / 愛上你不如愛 上海 ) as a play on Shanghai's geographical relationship with the sea in 2009.

In the field of legal education, ECUPL enjoys unparalleled influence and prestige in Shanghai and greater East China, which is China's most developed geographical division.

The Yangtze River Delta ( in the narrow sense or in the geographical sense ) is shown in green, which includes Shanghai and parts of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

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.

In the new national high-speed railway network under construction, two most important lines -- Jingguang ( Beijing to Guangzhou ), Xulan ( Xuzhou to Lanzhou, extended to Shanghai and Urumuqi ) intersect in Zhengzhou, which guarantees the city a strategic transport advantage for the future.

On January 3, 1967, Lin Biao and Jiang Qing employed local media and cadres to generate the so-called " January Storm ", in which many prominent Shanghai municipal government leaders were heavily criticized and purged.

The Shanghai clique or Shanghai faction is the name given to an informal group of officials in the Communist Party of China, especially those who serve in the central government of the People's Republic of China or the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, who rose to prominence in connection to the Shanghai municipal administration under former CPC General secretary, President Jiang Zemin.

In 1992, the Shanghai municipal government allocated a piece of land on People's Square to the museum as its new site.

Upon the defeat of Japan at the end of World War II, a unified municipal administration was established over urban Shanghai for the first time since the mid 19th century.

Since the 1990s, the Shanghai municipal government has taken the initiative to preserve historical Western architectures that were constructed during Shanghai's colonial past.

With what were believed to be stern messages sent by President Hu Jintao, Han led a municipal task force to crack down on the corruption in Shanghai, and has since then been believed to be a Hu loyalist.

It has four state-key disciplines, three Shanghai municipal key disciplines, a batch of state and ministry key laboratories, and national and ministry engineering research centers.

In the university are also municipal key laboratories in the field of galaxies and cosmology, 3 E-research institutes of urban culture, computational science and comparative linguistics, and a large number of major subjects in the process of further development either at the municipal level or under the supervision of Shanghai Education Commission.

In September 1998, according to the principle of “ co-established by both central government and local government, mainly managed by Shanghai Municipality ”, along with its jurisdiction transferred from the former Ministry of Machinery Industry to Shanghai Municipality, USST became a new-style municipal higher learning institute.

It also has formed key discipline of municipal level, three key disciplines of Shanghai Education Committee and seven key disciplines of the former Machinery Ministry.

Presently, SIT has been undertaking numerous projects of National Natural Science Foundation ( NSF ), the earlier stage programs of National Basic Research Program, Shanghai Natural Science Foundation, Shanghai Municipal Dawn Plan and other projects at provincial and municipal levels.

In the 1990s, the Shanghai municipal government developed the district as a commercial zone.

Putuo District (, Shanghainese: phu < sup > 2 </ sup > du < sup > 1 </ sup > chiu < sup > 1 </ sup >, Mandarin pinyin: Pǔtuó Qū ) is a municipal district, located northwest of the central area of Shanghai, China.

It also receives some funding from the European Union and the municipal government of Shanghai.

That position led to a number of increasingly powerful positions within the municipal government of Shanghai.

In less than a month, the Reformed Government asserted its authority over Dadao Government by establishing a Supervisory Yamen to take over the functions of the Shanghai municipal administration.

Today, the college has 27 departments of basic medical science and clinical medicine, 20 national key disciplines, 1 national key laboratory, 8 Project 211 key disciplines, 9 key laboratories under the supervision of the Ministry of Education or the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China, 2 municipal key disciplines and 8 Shanghai Clinic Medical Centers.

People's Square is the site of Shanghai's municipal government headquarter building, and is used as the standard reference point for measurement of distance in the Shanghai municipality.