- published: 19 May 2015
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Shanghai is the largest Chinese city by population and the largest city proper by population in the world. It is one of the four direct-controlled municipalities of China, with a population of more than 24 million as of 2014. It is a global financial center, and a transport hub with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta in East China, Shanghai sits on the south edge of the mouth of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the Chinese coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the north, south and west, and is bounded to the east by the East China Sea.
For centuries a major administrative, shipping, and trading town, Shanghai grew in importance in the 19th century due to European recognition of its favorable port location and economic potential. The city was one of five forced open to foreign trade following the British victory over China in the First Opium War while the subsequent 1842 Treaty of Nanking and 1844 Treaty of Whampoa allowed the establishment of the Shanghai International Settlement and the French Concession. The city then flourished as a center of commerce between east and west, and became the undisputed financial hub of the Asia Pacific in the 1930s. However, with the Communist Party takeover of the mainland in 1949, trade was reoriented to focus on socialist countries, and the city's global influence declined. In the 1990s, the economic reforms introduced by Deng Xiaoping resulted in an intense re-development of the city, aiding the return of finance and foreign investment to the city.
Actors: Michael Bowen (actor), Paul Hunt (producer), David Carradine (actor), David Carradine (director), Ismail Merchant (producer), Paul Hunt (actor), John Blyth Barrymore (actor), Patrick Culliton (actor), Vicki Roberts (producer), Calista Carradine (actress), Nikolai van der Heyde (actor), Arthur Andelson (producer), Annie Carradine (producer), Michelle Mangois (actress), Hugh Mcdowell (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Tim Robbins (actor), Phillip Noyce (director), Mickey Cottrell (miscellaneous crew), Anthony Minghella (producer), Stelio Savante (miscellaneous crew), Flax Glor (miscellaneous crew), Liza Chasin (producer), Tim Bevan (producer), Eric Fellner (producer), Marius Weyers (actor), Sydney Pollack (producer), Christina Angeloudes (miscellaneous crew), Genevieve Hofmeyr (producer), Chloe Dorigan (miscellaneous crew), Debra Hayward (producer),
Plot: A political thriller: the real-life story of a South African hero's journey to freedom. In the country's turbulent and divided times in the 1980s, Patrick Chamusso is an oil refinery foreman and soccer coach who is apolitical - until he and his wife Precious are jailed. Patrick is stunned into action against the country's oppressive reigning system, even as police Colonel Nic Vos further insinuates himself into the Chamussos' lives.
Keywords: 1980s, absent-father, african-national-congress, ak-43, angola, anti-terrorism, apartheid, apology, archive-footage, arrestActors: Fan Wei Yee (actor), Peter Chan (producer), Philip Chan (director), Simon Yam (actor), Philip Chan (writer), George Tan (actor), Andrea Leigh (actress), Abdul Malik Abbott (miscellaneous crew), San-san Lee (actress), Stephanie Lynn Wilson (actress), Stephanie Lynn Wilson (actress), Louis Homyak (actor), Robert Warmflash (editor), Anthony Gioia (actor), T. Scott Lilly (actor),
Genres: Action,Actors: Enzo Doria (director), Dardano Sacchetti (writer), Dardano Sacchetti (writer), Franco Piersanti (composer), Enzo Doria (producer), Enzo Doria (writer), Luigi Russo (editor), Luigi Russo (director), Sabrina Siani (actress), Annamaria Liguori (miscellaneous crew), Mario Pedone (actor), Fabio Meyer (actor), Pierpaolo Merzagora (producer),
Genres: Adventure,Actors: Jean-Pierre Aumont (actor), Manuel de Blas (actor), Boris Karloff (actor), Rubén Rojo (actor), Viveca Lindfors (actress), José Antonio Rojo (editor), Rosenda Monteros (actress), Milo Quesada (actor), Ray Ellis (composer), Dyanik Zurakowska (actress), Santos Alcocer (director), Edward Mann (writer), Edward Mann (writer), José Luis Bayonas (writer), José Luis Navarro (composer),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Hikaru Hayashi (composer), Kunie Tanaka (actor), Toyo Takahashi (actress), Frankie Sakai (actor), Yoshitarô Nomura (writer), Yoshitarô Nomura (director), Yôko Mihara (actress), Ichirô Arishima (actor), Takanobu Hozumi (actor), Takuya Fujioka (actor), Kiyoshi Atsumi (actor), Gajirô Satô (actor), Chieko Baishô (actress), Yoshiyasu Hamamura (editor), Jiro Sakagami (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Crime,Shang-Shang-Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai . . .
Here in Shanghai - you can love, you can dance, you can
cry.
Here in Shanghai - in a dream with the world passing by.
Oriental ladies look at me, oriental ladies sigh.
High in Shanghai - and I don't have the time to ask why.
High in Shanghai - and I don't have the time to ask why.
High in Shanghai - and I don't have the time to ask why.
You in Shanghai - walk around with a star in your eyes.
Free in Shanghai - you can laugh, you can dance, you can
fly.
Oriental feelings in your mind oriental way to sigh.
High in Shanghai - and you don't have the time to ask
why.
High in Shanghai - and I don't have the time to ask why.
. . .