Nantao

English thumb|NANTAO, SHANGHAI Etymology From 南頭. Proper noun en Nanshi. en 1904 C E Darwent Shanghai: A Handbook for Travellers and Residents to the Chief Objects of Interest in and around the Foreign Settlement and Native City https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217825/ 221293684 106 https://archive.org/details/cu31924023217825/page/n139/ Those who have no intention of visiting the native city will get a better idea of it from this suburb of Nantao than from any Chinese street in the International Settlement. en 1937 Terror Strikes Deep in Nantao (Chinese flee as Japanese bomb Nantao (1937)) https://web.archive.org/web/20220908203418/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGm8jwqv3i0 08 September 2022 Grumont British News (British Pathé) 0:05 Bombers over Nantao: the native city in the south rocks with terrific explosions.The capture of this city was an all-important step in the advance upon Nanking the capital. en 1986 w:Nien Cheng w:Life and Death in Shanghai https://archive.org/details/lifedeathinshang0000chen_i2o6/ 1995 000654861X 1023124200 79 https://archive.org/details/lifedeathinshang0000chen_i2o6/page/79/ It’s my aunt. During the Japanese invasion, she lost everything when the Japanese soldiers burned her area of Nantao city. en 1990 Harriet Sergeant Shanghai: Collision Point of Cultures, 1918-1939 https://archive.org/details/shanghaicollisio0000serg/ 0-517-57025-4 90-25079 924879292 11 https://archive.org/details/shanghaicollisio0000serg/page/11/ Away to the south-west ran the French Concession, its tree-lined avenues gashes of green through the grey roofs. Between it and the river lay the misshapen circle of the old Chinese City of Nantao, the city wall long since gone,¹ the narrow, stone streets now clean of the beggars, pimps and street-hawkers that used to infest its gloom. en Translations place Chinese: Mandarin: cmn Japanese: ja en Places in Shanghai