On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Dàjìng Gé Pavilion wall, which is the only remaining part of the Old City of Shanghai wall. The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand shanghai wonton soup and closely parallels the development of modern China.

Around 6000 BCE, only the western part of the Shanghai region encompassing today’s Qingpu, Songjiang and Jinshan districts were dry land formed by lacustrine silting from ancient Lake Tai. Song River—now known as Suzhou Creek,—a tributary of the Huangpu River. The character Hu is still used as an abbreviation to denote the city, for example on car license plates. Suzhou Creek and allowed for the loading and unloading of freight.

This new settlement had a population of about 300,000 with many engaged in the shipping trade. Map of the Old City of Shanghai. During the late Qing dynasty, Shanghai’s economy began to rival that of the traditionally larger market at Suzhou. In the 18th and early 19th centuries, exports of cotton, silk, and fertilizer reached as far as Polynesia and Persia. In 1832, the East India Company explored Shanghai and the Yangzi River as a potential trading center for tea, silk, and opium, but were rebuffed by local officials. The Taiping Rebellion was the largest of a number of widespread rebellions against the hugely unpopular Qing regime.