Shanghai

time to spare, and without being turned into a pancake, which is always a plus. The train conductor in his freshly pressed dark green uniform checks my ticket and welcomes me to the train. At last, it is time to return home to Shanghai. This is the summer of 2012 and Shanghai isn’t to be my home for much longer. Another week and I will cross the globe to start a new life in a foreign land called Charlotte. But which is home? The place I am leaving or the place I am going? Arrival or departure?…

rural areas of China. Over 200 million migrant workers such as farmers have internally migrated to the bigger cities and left their families behind in order to try to make more money. The most common cities that the workers are migrating into are: Shanghai, Beijing and Hong Kong. A push factor is a negative factor of a region which forces the person to emigrate out of a region. There are many major and minor push factors but the most common push factor is war. However, there are no current wars…

won from earlier battles, the Japanese thought the Shanghai troops would be as easily beaten. When Japan attacked Shanghai, the two armies came to a stalemate. Fights broke out on streets, bombs dropped on this nearly decimated city, and both armies rushing to replenish their losses. “Many historians today say the battle of Shanghai nurtured the psychological for japanese soldiers to go on a berserk rampage in Nanking later on,” (Battle of Shanghai…

Participants in Shanghai viewed the standard Mandarin speaker higher in all aspects except for “personal qualities”. However, Shenyang participants rated Northeastern Mandarin speaker higher than the standard Mandarin speaker in “personal qualities” and “prof-personal qualities”…

factors taken into account when working on improving student education. Although the U.S. is still solving its problems with education, there is still a chance of receiving a better rank on future PISA’s along with its current role models. For now, Shanghai and Finland will continue working to improve their systems to encourage students they are worth only the best…

rolling down my face after being told my family is moving to Shanghai. “No, no, no, I am not moving,” I scream at my parents at the top of my lungs as I begin to cry. Only bad thoughts are rolling through my head now as I think about how difficult making new friends is going to be; how difficult it will be to call a new place home; and how difficult adapting and living in a new culture will be. When I pictured what life would be like in Shanghai, I did not have any friends and I thought no one…

for Dmitry Troyanovsky to combine travel with work, directing this past summer the last play Sarah Kane wrote, titled 4.48 Psychosis, at the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre in Shanghai, China. Troyanovky said this was not the first time he has worked in China, “I’ve been collaborating with Chinese artists and theater educators since 2011… People from the Shanghai Dramatic Arts Centre were aware of my work, so they…

Mildred Pierce, directed by Michael Curtiz in 1945, as well as The Lady from Shanghai, directed by Orson Welles in 1947 are both considered a film noir. These films are considered to be a film noir because of its dark and eerie lighting, its use of night club scenes and also the narration voice over that starts in the beginning of the film. From the beginning of the film until the end of the film the main characters, Mildred and Michael are both sent on a series of unfortunate events. From…

capital of Nationalist China as well as several empires such as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, (Nanjing) is located approximately 200 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai in Eastern China. Nanjing is located in a key location in the country due to the fact that the Yangtze allows trade vessels from Sichuan in Western China to travel to Shanghai and the Pacific Ocean. This factor allowed Nanjing to have a strengthen economy and more influential impact on the country compared to other cities.…

International Settlement. On October 25, 1917, the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (Shanghai zong shanghui 上海總商會) filed a written request to the SMC at the behest of the Sheng family for the use of Nanjing Road for the procession. In the letter, Sheng was portrayed as a highly accomplished businessman that made an unmatched contribution to modernizing China’s industry, commerce, and education. His role in helping Shanghai avoiding the catastrophe of the Boxer Rebellion (1899-1901) found…