The Soviet-built Shanghai Exhibition Centre (??? ???; Shanghai Zhanlan Zhongxin) is a fine example of high Socialist Realist architecture and dates from the early 1950s; a time noted for its Sino-Soviet solidarity. The building was designed by a Soviet architect and combines communist symbolism with elements inspired by Eastern Orthodox church architecture.
Shanghai began life as a fishing village; and later as a port receiving goods carried down the Yangzi River. From 1842 onwards; in the aftermath of the first Opium War; the British opened a 鈥榗oncession' in Shanghai where drug dealers and other traders could operate undisturbed. French; Italians; Germans; Americans and Japanese all followed. By the 1920s and 1930s; Shanghai was a boom town and an international byword for dissipation. When the Communists won power in 1949; they transformed Shanghai into a model of the Revolution.
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