Shanghai

上海 Shanghai
Photograph of Shanghai
Details
Population	11.70M
State GDP	$2.12
GDP/C	$181
Culture	Wu

In-Game Description

The vivacious and magnificent city of Shanghai, a city that never sleeps. A grand hub of finance, trade, research, and manufacturing, the bustling streets of Shanghai remain in perpetual motion. As with everything, Shanghai had a rather humble beginning, being a mere inconsiderable town in the era of the Tang and Song dynasties, only drastically expanding under the tenure of the emperors of the Qing, becoming a center of trade and prosperity throughout its domain.As the tenuous grasp of the Qing continued to loosen, European interests caused the city to be divided into various sectors, slicing it like a piece of pie. The city saw immense resistance from the Chinese when the bombshells heralding the coming of another great war fell upon its buildings, the Japanese troops swiping away the concessions of the foreign Europeans and bringing a new era to Shanghai. Though Shanghai today is united, it faces a multitude of problems; crime, corruption, smuggling. The rule of the Japanese did not wipe the slate clean, Shanghai is forever tethered to its past.