Nanshi

English

Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 南市.

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Nanshi

  1. (historical) A district of Shanghai, China.
    • 2000 April 16, Craig S. Smith, “WHAT'S DOING IN Shanghai”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 May 2015, WHAT'S DOING IN‎:
      Farther east is Nanshi, the original walled city of Shanghai. The circular wall is long gone; a road has replaced it. Visitors usually go to the maze of mostly rebuilt Qing dynasty buildings around the Temple of the City God and Yu Yuan Garden.

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