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The 51 pages that link to Shanghai, each with the reason it gives.

• NanjingRelated: Shanghai is Nanjing’s most prominent regional counterpart in the Yangtze River Delta.

• East China SeaRelated: Its port depends on access across the East China Sea.

• MandopopRelated: Its entertainment and recording industries nurtured early Mandarin popular music.

• HangzhouRelated: Its proximity ties Hangzhou to the delta’s largest commercial and transport center.

• Chen YunRelated: Chen helped organize Communist labor and party activity in Shanghai before the 1949 victory.

• Jiang QingRelated: Before joining the Communist movement, Jiang Qing pursued an acting career in Shanghai.

• In the Mood for LoveRelated: The characters’ Shanghainese backgrounds inform their speech, customs, and sense of displacement.

• JiangsuRelated: Shanghai’s markets, port, and supply chains are closely connected to neighboring Jiangsu.

• Beijing–Shanghai High-Speed RailwayRelated: The line’s southern terminus is Shanghai.

• J. G. BallardRelated: Ballard’s early years in Shanghai supplied settings and experiences later transformed in his fiction.

• King HuRelated: Hu was born in Beijing and entered cinema after moving through China’s changing cultural landscape.

• Soong Ching-lingRelated: She was born there in 1893, amid a rapidly changing urban society.

• Li JinhuiRelated: Shanghai’s theaters and music market offered a setting for Li’s popular songs and performances.

• NingboRelated: Its proximity and port connections place Ningbo within Shanghai's wider economic orbit.

• Ba JinRelated: Ba Jin lived and worked in Shanghai, where several of his major novels were published.

• East ChinaRelated: The region’s leading municipality and principal international port anchors its eastern coast.

• HSBCRelated: The original bank’s name reflected its early presence in Shanghai as well as Hong Kong.

• Eileen ChangRelated: Its treaty-port cosmopolitanism and wartime occupation form the backdrop to much of Chang’s early fiction.

• YangtzeRelated: The river’s mouth connects its inland basin to Shanghai’s seaborne trade.

• NantongRelated: It lies across the Yangtze estuary from Nantong and is a major economic partner.

• Wang HuningRelated: Wang studied and taught in Shanghai, where his academic career began.

• Yue operaRelated: Shanghai theaters helped Yue opera expand and develop its modern style.

• Zheng JunliRelated: Shanghai's film industry provided the studios, audiences, and urban settings central to Zheng's career.

• ZiyeRelated: The novel titled 子夜 portrays Shanghai's commercial and social world in 1930.

• ChangzhouRelated: Shanghai anchors the wider delta economy connected to Changzhou.

• Foreign-controlled territories in ChinaRelated: Its concessions created a distinctive, divided urban landscape and international commercial center.

• Liu TianhuaRelated: Liu studied and taught in Shanghai, where new musical institutions were taking shape.