Dinghai

He recently spoke at a conference denouncing the destruction of Dinghai, an old town on Zhoushan island, near Shanghai, best known as the real object of British covetousness during the Opium War (Hong Kong was actually a mistake).

2001 April 20, Jonathan Napack, “A Firebrand Agitates to Preserve China's Memory”, in The New York Times (Style section), New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 Jun 2024

Located at the intersection of the Yangtze River Estuary and Hangzhou Bay of China, Dinghai District (lat. 29°55′N–30° 15′N, long. 121° 38′E–122° 15′E) is the economic and political center of the Zhoushan Archipelago.

2017, Xiaoyun Shao with Changwei Jing, Jiaguo Qi, Jingang Jiang, Qiankun Liu, and Xiumin Cai, “Impacts of land use and planning on island ecosystem service values: a case study of Dinghai District on Zhoushan Archipelago, China”, in Ecological Processes, volume 6, number 1, page 27