Yangshupu

alternative Yangtzepoo · alternative Yangtszepoo

1. historicalFormer name of Yangpu, a district of Shanghai, China.

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   Shanghai's concessions, which by the middle of the nineteenth century took up 0.56 square kilometers, extended to over 33 square kilometers at the beginning of the twentieth century. The main extensions had taken place northward along the Huangpu River in Yangshupu and Wusong River (Suzhou Creek) and west of the Walled City.

   2004, Marie-Claire Bergère, “Shanghai's Urban Development: A Remake?”, in Seng Kuan, Peter G. Rowe, editors, Shanghai: Architecture & Urbanism for Modern China, Prestel Publishing, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 39