Now, the question whether Shang-hal has a great future or not depends simply on whether this city has a function or service to perform in the affairs of the world, specially in this hemisphere.
of contact between foreigner Originating as one of several points Chinese, Shangl merit of ils sheer usefulness, to a place of leading importance, Time and again, the force of political movements seemed to divert Some of the cumulative strength of Shanghai to other locales, as recently instanced in the sudden rise of Nan-King under the gis of the Kuomintang, In the past, China's centre-city—the three-In-one of Hankow-Wuchang-Hanyang or the Wuhan—throbbed as the economic, riverine heart of China, ving force tu ati Until one quarter of a century agt the Dragon-Throned city, with its Imperial blue and yellow splendour, of traditional Peking and. its sister emporium of Tientsin, shed radiance all over the celestial Empire, In the uth, Canton, the first trading contact point, had reached the meridian of its economic glory in the past century, to be later eclipsed by the British colonial entrepot and fortress of Hongkong, "Continual Upwardness"
Slowly swaying between the focal points of economics and polities and back again from polities to economies, at one time or another, this or that city had its day and declined, "But in the case of Shanghai there has been, with comparatively brief set-backs, tone' line of continual upwardness. The reader may want to interpolate here: "Yes, until the present moment," What is his "moment," and the nature of it, s thus of much Similarly, the great Powers, that have met in the Orient and China and ranged about Shanghai, have coexisted, here in this city' at least, without resorting to arms one against the other.
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