Shanghai

Shanghai, on China's east coast, is the country's most populous city and a direct-administered municipality. Under the Ming it was the home of the scholar-official Xu Guangqi, who became a Catholic and worked with Matteo Ricci on the first Chinese translation of part of Euclid. Opened as a treaty port in 1842, it grew into a cosmopolitan trading city with foreign settlements. During the Second World War it took in close to 20,000 Jewish refugees from Central Europe, including the Mir Yeshiva, which arrived from Kobe, Japan, in 1941 and continued its studies in the Hongkou district, where the Japanese confined stateless refugees from 1943. The physicist Tsung-Dao Lee was born here in 1926.

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