Introduction 1
A Bridge to the Outside World He Chengwei 1
General Preface 3
The Dynamic Blending of Chinese and Western Culture in Modern Shanghai Xiong Yuezhi 3
Ⅰ They Hailed from Great Britain 4
1．Subjects of the British Crown 4
2．TheVoyage of the Amherst 10
3．Shanghai Opens Up:Balfour and the Early Design for the Consulate General 13
4．Consolidation:From British Settlement to International Settlement 16
5．British Features of Shanghai 21
6．Visits to Shanghai by FamousBritons 25
Ⅱ Dealing with the British 30
1．From"Barbarian"to"Westerner":Trading One Kind of Inequality for Another 30
2．The Public Garden Crisis 32
3．Communications:Yangkingpang Creek(Pidgin)English and Chinese 36
4．We are Shanghailanders:Celebrating Shanghai's First 50 Years as an Open Port 39
5．Conflict:The May 30th Movement 44
Ⅲ Those Shanghailanders 50
1．A Man and a Publishing House 50
2．Western Medicine:William Lockhart and Lester Chinese Hospital 53
3．The Man Everyone Knew:The Legendary Life of John Fryer 55
4．Shanghai's Media Mogul:Ernest Major and his Shen-Pao 62
5．The Peerless Tycoon:Henry Lester 66
6．In Search of Dreams:An Englishman's Shanghai Story 67
Ⅳ Little England in Shanghai 74
1．What They Ate:A Feast of Chinese-Western Fusion 74
2．Leisure:Shanghai Kaleidoscope 77
3．Their Obsession:Everybody Loved Horseracing 81
4．Reading:A Copy of North China Daily News in Every Hand 87
Ⅴ British Architecture in Shanghai 92
1．The English Club:A Gathering Place 92
2．The Garden Bridge:Spanning Soochow Creek and the Whangpoo River 93
3．Sassoon Villa:English Country Style 95
4．Moiler Villa:A Taste of Northern Europe 96
5．From Astor House to the Pujiang Hotel 98
6．Jessfield Park:One of China's Most Famous Parks 102
7．The English Castle of Shanghai Industry:Yangtszepoo Waterworks 104
8．The Number One Prison in the Far East:Ward Road Gaol(Tilanqiao Prison) 105
9．In the Name of God:Holy Trinity Cathedral and Union Church 109
Ⅵ England and Shanghai in the New China 114
1．Unbroken Historical TiesBound Together By History 114
2．The Consul General Promotes Cultural Contacts 115
3．Visits by Politicians 117
4．A Royal Visit to Shanghai By Her Majesty the Queen 118
5．A Splendid Building in Expo Park 119