Paris of the East

English Etymology Usually a calque of en fr Paris de l'Orient, praising a location for its supposed resemblance to the glamor and nightlife of 19th-century Paris. Noun 1 - Parises of the East A major city that is considered as magnificent or culturally significant as Paris. en 2004 Cornelia Golna City of Man's Desire: A novel of Constantinople https://books.google.com/books?id=xHXGa8HSQIQC Go-Bos Press nl 90-804114-4-2 66566790 318 https://books.google.com/books?id=xHXGa8HSQIQC&pg=PA318 "You know, of course," noted another officer, "there are any number of Parises of the East, from Warsaw to Bucharest." en Proper noun 1 en dated en @former nickname for:Bucharest caplc c/Romania. en dated en @former nickname for:Casablanca major city c/Morocco. en obsolete en @former nickname for:Lahore major city in modern c/Pakistan ; in use during the time of the British Raj. en dated en @former nickname for:Phnom Penh caplc c/Cambodia. en dated en @former nickname for:Hanoi major city c/Vietnam. en dated en @former nickname for:Shanghai major port city/and/direct-administered municipality c/China. 1934 — Anon., All About Shanghai: A Standard Guidebook, The University Press, Shanghai. 1983 reed., Oxford University Press, Oxford, 0-19-581594-7. p. 73; What odds whether Shanghai is the Paris of the East or Paris the Shanghai of the Occident ? en 1996 James R. Schultz Paris Of The East The Long Way Home: A Pacific Odyssey of World War II https://archive.org/details/longwayhomepacif0000schu/ Creative Arts Book Company 0-88739-114-1 96-84603 35769883 95 https://archive.org/details/longwayhomepacif0000schu/page/95/ The Paris of the East, it was called. Cosmopolitan, bustling, exotic, mysterious, Shanghai was a cultural crossroads and the quintessential liberty town for sailors. en Translations Paris of the East French: fr Paris de l'Orient Hindi: hi पूर्व का पेरिस m Korean: ko ^동방(東方)-의 ^파리 References Peter Soppelsa, "How Haussmann's Hegemony Haunted the Early Third Republic", Is Paris Still the Capital of the Nineteenth Century?, 2017. en calques