World Celebrities In Shanghai
According to Shanghai local records, there are quite some world
celebrities who were ever been in Shanghai over the past 150 years. They are
Albert Einsten, Charles Chaplin, Pearl S. Buck, Warner Oland, etc.
A brief introduction of Shanghai
Shanghai began as a fishing village in the 11th century, but by the
mid-18th century it was an important area for growing cotton and by the 1800s it
was becoming the largest city in China. Foreigners came into Shanghai due to
foreign trade after the Opium Wars. The British, along with the Americans and
French, were allowed to live in certain territorial zones without being under
the Chinese laws ...