Meaning of Nanshi | Babel Free

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A district of Shanghai, China.

historical

Examples

“Some peasants may have come to teach them how to use a hoe and when to plant, but most of their contacts were with other city people. In 1965, a group of 150 volunteers from Nanshih District, Shanghai, founded the Hsints’un (New Village) Brigade, in T’aochuang Commune of Chiashan County, Chekiang.”

“SHANGHAI'S Nanshi district, which includes the southern Bund area, plans to build a cable car system to Pudong across the Huangpu River to boost retail activities on both banks.”

“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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