History of Shanghai

Interactive reading is a special technique of memorizing information based on interval repetition.
Dates of important events are missing in the text, and you will need to add them.
If you specify a right date - you move forward, and if you're wrong - start over.
This is a very effective way of learning of new material (as opposed to usual reading).
In such a manner you'll actually remember what you read!

The history of Shanghai spans over a thousand years and closely parallels the development of modern China. Originally a small agricultural village, Shanghai developed during the late Qing dynasty as one of China's principal trading ports. Since the economic reforms of the early 1990s the city has burgeoned to become one of Asia's financial centers and the world's busiest container port....