History of Shanghai， ChinaShanghai began as a fishing village in the 11th century， but by the mid-18th century it was an important area for growing cotton and by the 1800s it was becoming the largest city in C Foreigners came into Shanghai due to foreign trade after the Opium W The British， along with the Americans and French， were allowed to live in certain territorial zones without being under the Chinese As a result of all the foreigners， Shanghai became greatly influenced by Western culture， but things changed dramatically after Communism took During the 1900s， opium sales along with the gambling and prostitution that went with it brought in very big After the end of Shanghai's subjugation by the Japanese， the Nationalist Chinese government was given control of the The foreigners no longer had control and by 1949， Shanghai was transformed by the Communist Chinese As the foreigners left， the businesses that were left behind were one by one taken over by the After losing ground during the Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976， Deng Xiaopeng's open door policy allowed for the advancement back to being an international force in business and Then in 1990s， Pudong developed quicklyto become a new financial region in the east part of S Shanghai will host the WorldExpo in
