I love the movies that take place in the old city of Shanghai or in Hong Kong. I like to see what these cities were like back in time, when the world was very different politically. Well, contrary to many Chinese cities with a long and varied history, the history of Shanghai is very short.
The English opened the concession on the site after the first Opium War and thus began the development of the city. What was once a small fishing village located at the end of the Huang Pu River became one of the most modern and sophisticated cities in the world. Over time, of course, although not much.
Towards the middle of the 30th century, then, the English arrive favored by a forced treaty with the Qing dynasty, when China loses the First Opium War. The Chinese had no jurisprudence here and soon the French, Americans and Japanese followed the British and settled in the territories of Shanghai. In the 1930s of the twentieth century it became the most important port in Asia, between 1941 and 1937 it was a refuge for Jews because it did not close its doors and in 1945 it was bombed by Japan and had to be evacuated until the allies. recovered in XNUMX.
In 1943 the foreign concessions end but in 1949 most of the foreigners abandon it because the communists they take control, and it will not grow again until 1976, at which point its doors are reopened to trade.