Example sentences for: shanghai

How can you use “shanghai” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • After the death of Mao and the arrest of the Gang of Four, Shanghai culture and art experienced a renaissance, and the new economic policies of the 1990s benefited Shanghai more than any other city.

  • Chinese has made many contributions to English, among them typhoon, sampan, taipan, tea, silk, tong, Shanghai as a verb, and tofu .

  • After the war the Guomindang Nationalists took power, but Communist troops seized Shanghai in 1949.

  • One of the pleasures of Shanghai is to stroll Nanjing Road, long the most famous shopping avenue in China, to see what’s new and what’s old.

  • Canton , or as it now appears on modern maps, Guangzhou , means broad region, while Shanghai means over the sea.


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