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English
Proper noun
Shang-hae
- (obsolete) Alternative form of Shanghai
1834, Charles Gutzlaff, Journal of Three Voyages along the Coast of China, in 1831, 1832, & 1833, with Notices of Siam, Corea, and the Loo-Choo Islands, London: Frederick Westley and A.H. Davis, page 205:We narrowly escaped running ashore near the island of Nan-jih, which belongs to Footeen district. Several junks had anchored in this harbour, some of which we visited, and were advised to go to Shang-hae in Keang-nan, where we might find a ready market for our cargo.
1844, John Ochterlony, The Chinese War: An Account of All the Operations of the British Forces from the Commencement to the Treaty of Nanking, London: Saunders and Otley, →OCLC, pages 306–307:Connected, however, as it is by an elaborate system of inland navigation with all the principal cities of the rich and productive province in which it is situated, among which Soo-chow-foo, the most important manufacturing town of the empire, occupies the foremost rank, Shang-hae must necessarily serve as the entrepôt of a considerable export and import trade, receiving, in exchange for the stuffs, silks, and wares of the province, the cargoes of grain, metals, and woollen goods, brought by the junks from Japan, Corea, Formosa, the southern ports, and Singapore. […]
Shang-hae is apparently a very ancient town, bearing on its walls and buildings, private as well as public, evidence of the ravages of long periods of time.
1849, Henry Charles Sirr, chapter XIII, in China and the Chinese: Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufactures: the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade: with a Glance at our Religious, Moral, and Commercial Intercourse with the Country, volume I, Wm. S. Orr & Co., →OCLC, page 210:The city of Shang-hae is surrounded by a wall about three miles and a quarter in circuit, which is not fortified in any manner; there are six entrances at gates, which give ingress and egress to the inhabitants of the city and environs; four of these gates open into the neighbourhood of the river where the warehouses of the merchants are situated.
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