Bnbook ID-2712 No-01.Pdf

Total Page:16

File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb

Bnbook ID-2712 No-01.Pdf PamphletDesc1ibing M 1750 ·----- Records of the ------· ShanghaiMunicipal Police ----- 1894-1949 Records of the Central Intelligence Agency Record Group 263 tfl As­ o~oe-- M1750 RECORDS OF THE SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL POLICE 1894-1949 This publication was prepared by Jo Ann Williamson, with assistancefrom National Archives and Records Administration volunteers and student interns. National Archives and Records Administration Washington, DC I 1993 t;' ; I l. TABLE OF CONTENTS Description Introduction Appendix A Investigative Files of the Shanghai Municipal Police D FILES. Reports of Speciai Branch made between 1929-1949 4 IO FILES. Reports made 1916-1929 144 MIS FILES 161 N FILES. Reports Made 1943-1945 During Japanese Occupation 162 U FILES. Reports Made 1940-1945 During Japanese Occupation 174 W FILES. Station W (Western Area) 177 FMP FILES. French Municipal Police 177 BW FILES. Bubbling Well Station Reports 177 CID FILES. Criminal Intelligence Division 178 CS FILES. Crime and Special Branch 178 SMPFILE 179 United States. NatiOnal Archives and Records Administration. Records of the Shanghai municipal police 1894-1949.-Washington, DC: National Archives F FILES. French Political Police 179 Trust Fund Board, National Archives ai:id.Records Administration, 1993. 185 p.; 23 cm.-(National Archives mictofilm publications. Pamphlet FC FILES. Film Censorship 179 describing M1750.) Cover title. H Files. Headquarters Staff 180 "These files are part of the records of the Central Intelligence Agency. Record Group (RG) 263. "-p. 1. Appendix B "This publication was prepared by Jo Ann Williamson ... " Related Records 1. Police-China-Shanghai-Records and correspondence-Microform catalogs. 2. Shanghai (China). Municipal Police-Archives-Microform catalogs. 3. (Formerly) Security Classified Records Relating to Espionage 181 United States. Central InteUigence Agency-Archives-Microform catalogs. 4. Activities in Shanghai, 1926-1948 ("Willoughby Collection") Inteiligence service-China-History-Sources-Bibliography-Microform catalogs. I. Williamson, Jo Ann. IT. National Archives Trust Fund Board. ill. Title. Microfilm Copy of Registration Cards of Russian Emigrants, 181 IV. Series 1940-1945 28055561 Microfilm Copy of Registration Certificates of the Russian 182 Emigrants Committee, 1944-1945 9;,e,,C 'b~ -f Microfilm Copy of the Tsingtao Registration Cards, 1946-1949 182 INTRODUCTION Other Records 183 On the 67 rolls of this microfilm publication, M1750, are reproduced Roll List 184 some of the Shanghai Municipal Police investigation files, 1894-1944. These files are part of the records of the Central Intelligence Agency, Record Group (RG) 263. Background Before World War II, Shanghai was divided into three sovereign jurisdictions. The French Concession occupied a small area close to the city center while the largest jurisdiction, both in population and area, was the Chinese Municipality of Greater Shanghai; part of the Republic of China. However, the city's commercial and industrial core, the great port, fashionable clubs, hotels, and consulates aII were located in the third jurisdiction, the International Settlement, .an entity unique in world politics. This International Settlement did not belong to any one power; its ruling body, known as the Shanghai Municipal Council and elected by the ,"ratepayers," was composed of citizens of a number of powers. Although "international" in outward appearance, during most of its history the Council was effectively controJled by British interests. The settlement's law enforcement agency was the Shanghai Municipal Police (SMP). While the force included Chinese, Indian, and later Russian and Japanese personnel, until World War II the Commissioner and senior officers were alwaj,s British. The functions of the police force were dictated by the strange political demarcations of Shanghai and by the opportunities they presented for criminal activity. ·The SMP.Special Branch also served as an intel1igence gathering and, occasionally, as an executive arm of the British Secret Intelligence Service in the Far East. As a center of political activity in China and the home of a cosmopolitan population (including thousands of White Russian emigr~. as well as 20,000 Jewish refugees), Shanghai was a natural target for intelligence operations by several powers. In 1938, as the Japanese expanded their control over sections of China, they demanded increased representation on the Shanghai Municipal Council and also on its ·police force. After Pearl Harbor the Japanese invited the British and American personnel serving on both to continue their duties under Japanese supervision; however, by July 1942, all British officers of the SMP had been forced to resign. These individuals later spent the remainder of the war in internment camps. When the Japanese took over the city in December 1941, they left the collection of.police files largely intact. The only ones that they apparently removed were Special Branch reports on Japanese personalities. In the spring of 1949, as Communist forces approached Shanghai, the Nationalist Chinese garrison commander gave the remaining Special Branch files ··, r I to the local American Strategic Services Unit (SSU), a military intelligence Related Records successor of the OSS. (The SSU was later integrated into the Central InteI1igence Agency.) When the files were hurriedly loaded on board an American warship, Appendix B describes other records of the Shanghai Municipal Police that some of the boxes fell into the Wbangpoo River; others were damaged when the have been allocated to National Archives Record Group 263. These include the ship transporting them ran into a typhoon. However, most of the files safely "Willoughby Collection," the SMP documents selected and bound in 20 volumes reached Japan and, eventually, the United States. by G-2 (Military Intelligence) in connection with the Sorge investigation; a microfilm copy of registration cards of Russian emigrants, 1940-4S; a microfilm General C. A. Willoughby, Assistant Chief of Staff, G-2 (Military copy of registration certificates of the Russian Emigrants Committee, 1944-4S; a Intelligence),in General Douglas MacArthur's Far Eastern Command,used the microfilm copy of the Tsingtao Registration Cards, 194649; and miscellaneous files as the main source for his special investigation of Soviet double agent other records. Richard Sorge, who served in Shanghaiin the I930's. Several volumes of extracted materials were bound up for this purpose. The records were eventually transferred to the Central Intelligence Agency and later to the National Archives. Records Description Records of the Shanghai Municipal Police transferred to the National Archives included both microfilm and original records. The major portion of the microfilm, 67 rolls identified as the "investigation files," was created by the U.S. Army, apparently in support of General Willoughby'"Sinvestigative activities. It is this Army-prepared microfilm that constitutes M1750. The criteria for selection of records to be film~ are not known; the effort did not always preserve the S:MP's original filing-schemes and Sometimesonly portions of a particular file were filmed. Nevertheless, the film makes accessible a substantial portion of some very interesting records, and numerous researchers have requested copies of it. This publication responds to that interest. Because this film was not created under ideal filming conditions, there are problems associated with its use. Archivists working with the files of the Shanghai Municipal Police in National Archives custody have learned that while there is considerable overlap between the microfilm and the paper records, many paper records were not filmed and some filmed files were not transferred to the National Archives in paper form. Appendix A is a list of investigative files of the S:MPfrom which records were selected for inclusion in Ml750. The arrangement of the listed files follows as closely as possible the order apparently intended by the Shanghai Municipal Police. The list includes records that exist only on paper, records that exist only on microfilm, and records that exist both on paper and on microfilm. The list distinguishes between these record types in the following manner: list entries for records that exist only on paper include a box number, a file number. and a file description, but no roll number; list entries that exist only on microfilm include a roll number, a file number, and a file description, but no box number; and list entries that exist in both paper and microfilm include a box number, a roll number, a file number, and a file description. In some cases file descriptions are transcribed file titles, even to the extent of retaining the original British spelling of words; but in most cases they are NARA-prepared summaries of file content. 2 3 Folder Title/Contents Box Roll File APPENDIX A 8/18 Duties of membersof Cr. & Sp. Br. D Files. Registry. 7.5.31 Transferof work pertainingto communistic Reports of Special Branch made between 1929-1949 1 8/20 activitiesfrom S 1 to S2. 18.5.31 Instructionsto membersof CrimeBranch, 1 8/22 Box Roll File Folder Title/Contents Hdqrs. 8/23 SpecialBranch offices, departmental 1 transfers. Special Branch Registry 1 1 1 Confessionof Chulkoff segregatedfrom Crime & Special 1 1 4 Intelligencereport - political - Communists Branch Registry. May 1, 1934 1 1 5 Intelligencereport - political - notables Boarding House Section of C.1 taken over 1 I 6 Intelligencereport - political- general 8/24 situation (Jan. 28, 1929) by Special Branch, S2, from June 1, I 7 Reports concerningGeorge Gressey 1934 Addresses of foreign membersof Special I 8 Special BranchSection organizationsand 1 1 8/25 work, 1929-1941. Covering index to Branch file D.S. 1-25. 10 (C.I.D.) office notes - Foreign Section, I 8/1 Work of" A" Division (1929) Jan. 29, 1929 Arrestof TsiangHwa Tsao, aliasTsiang 1 8/2 Work of "B" Division (1929) 10 Tung Ydh, alias Kang Chang Ze, alias 1 8/3 Duties of J.C.D.I. Nakagawa and Japanese membersof Special Branch Bi Sho-Wan,Korean terrorist Intelligencereport - political- military- I 8/4 Duties of Russian membersof C.I.D. 1 11 labour& tranSlationof extractsfrom I 8/5 Work of SI (Int.
Recommended publications
  • July 15, 1898
    PORTLAND DAILY PRESS. JULY * W ESTABLISHED JUNE 23, 1S«2—VOL. 35. PORTLAND, MAINE, FRIDAY MORNING, 15, 1898. gagggSffjmK PRICE THREE CENTS. MI SCEI.1.A>*E()MS. _ Hi YEARS ASONY ( THE FALL OF SANTIAGO. FROM ECZEMA EZCSO^cE • 1 —-----—---- CURED BY CUTICURA For ten years I suffered untold agonies from Eczema, my lower limbs being so swollen and broken out that I could hardly go about. My brother, a physician of thirty years’ practice, and other physicians of splendid ability, tried in vain to effect a cure and signally failed. I became absolutely disheartened, and had lost all hope, when a friend induced me to give Cuticura. Kemedies a trial. I used two cakes of Cuticura Soap and two boxes of Cuticura (ointment), and it resulted in an absolute and permanent cure. DAVID M. SAPP, Plymouth, 111. Sfebdy Cube Treatment fob all Skix axd Blood Humors, with Loss OF Hair.—Warm baths with Cuti- CZJBA Soap, gentle anointings with Octicuka, and mild doses 01 Cuticuba Rbsolvkxt. Bold throughout the world. Potter Dbugayd Chem, Cobp., Solo Props., Boston. “How to Cure LcSTaia," tee. « THE CHAPMAN NATIONAL BANK of Portland, Maine. FR«HM STOPPED- CAPITAL, $100,000.00 WITHOUT SHOT. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $25,000.00 Solicits the accounts of Banks,Mer- a cantile Firms, Corporations and Very Near To Scrap ia tinuta* Individuals, and is prepared to fur- Off Like namo nish its patrons the best facilities Santiago Dropped Daribor, and liberal accommodations. Intarsd Pair! OannsitQ Ripe Fruit. (Copyright 1893 by tha Associated Prose.) SPECIAL DEPARTMENT FOR SAVINGS.
    [Show full text]
  • The Trouble with Revisionism: Or Communist History with the History Left In
    Document généré le 26 sept. 2021 07:39 Labour / Le Travail The Trouble with Revisionism or Communist History with the History Left In Kevin Morgan Volume 63, printemps 2009 URI : https://id.erudit.org/iderudit/llt63cnt01 Aller au sommaire du numéro Éditeur(s) Canadian Committee on Labour History ISSN 0700-3862 (imprimé) 1911-4842 (numérique) Découvrir la revue Citer ce document Morgan, K. (2009). The Trouble with Revisionism: or Communist History with the History Left In. Labour / Le Travail, 63, 131–155. All rights reserved © Canadian Committee on Labour History, 2009 Ce document est protégé par la loi sur le droit d’auteur. L’utilisation des services d’Érudit (y compris la reproduction) est assujettie à sa politique d’utilisation que vous pouvez consulter en ligne. https://apropos.erudit.org/fr/usagers/politique-dutilisation/ Cet article est diffusé et préservé par Érudit. Érudit est un consortium interuniversitaire sans but lucratif composé de l’Université de Montréal, l’Université Laval et l’Université du Québec à Montréal. Il a pour mission la promotion et la valorisation de la recherche. https://www.erudit.org/fr/ CONTROVERSY /POLÉMIQUE The Trouble with Revisionism: or Communist History with the History Left In Kevin Morgan Whatever one makes of it, communism was one of the key political forces of the 20th century. At once a party, an international, a social movement and a system of government, to say nothing of a major pole of ideological and cul- tural attraction, the global extension of its influence helped define the “short” 20th century and was one of its characteristic expressions.
    [Show full text]
  • Shanghai, China's Capital of Modernity
    SHANGHAI, CHINA’S CAPITAL OF MODERNITY: THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE AND URBAN EXPERIENCE OF WORLD EXPO 2010 by GARY PUI FUNG WONG A thesis submitted to The University of Birmingham for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOHPY School of Government and Society Department of Political Science and International Studies The University of Birmingham February 2014 University of Birmingham Research Archive e-theses repository This unpublished thesis/dissertation is copyright of the author and/or third parties. The intellectual property rights of the author or third parties in respect of this work are as defined by The Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 or as modified by any successor legislation. Any use made of information contained in this thesis/dissertation must be in accordance with that legislation and must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the permission of the copyright holder. ABSTRACT This thesis examines Shanghai’s urbanisation by applying Henri Lefebvre’s theories of the production of space and everyday life. A review of Lefebvre’s theories indicates that each mode of production produces its own space. Capitalism is perpetuated by producing new space and commodifying everyday life. Applying Lefebvre’s regressive-progressive method as a methodological framework, this thesis periodises Shanghai’s history to the ‘semi-feudal, semi-colonial era’, ‘socialist reform era’ and ‘post-socialist reform era’. The Shanghai World Exposition 2010 was chosen as a case study to exemplify how urbanisation shaped urban experience. Empirical data was collected through semi-structured interviews. This thesis argues that Shanghai developed a ‘state-led/-participation mode of production’.
    [Show full text]
  • Swiss Dance Awards 2013 Award Winners
    Federal Department of Home Affairs FDHA Federal Office of Culture FOC Swiss Dance Awards 2013 Award winners Index Awards 2 «Swiss Dance Award»: Martin Schläpfer ............................................................................... 2 «Special Dance Award»: Théâtre Sévelin 36 ......................................................................... 2 «Outstanding Female Dancer»: Yen Han ............................................................................... 3 «Outstanding Male Dancer»: Foofwa d’Imobilité .................................................................... 4 Competition: «Current Dance Works» 5 «Sideways Rain»: Alias Cie / Guilherme Botelho ................................................................... 5 «Disabled Theater»: Theater HORA / Jérôme Bel ................................................................. 6 «From B to B»: ZOO / Thomas Hauert ................................................................................... 7 «Diffraction»: Cie Greffe / Cindy Van Acker ........................................................................... 8 June Johnson Dance Prize 9 «Dark side of the moon»: Asphalt Piloten / Anna Anderegg ................................................... 9 Schweizer_Tanzpreis_2013_Anhang_EN.docx Swiss Dance Awards 2013 - Award winners Awards «Swiss Dance Award»: Martin Schläpfer Martin Schläpfer was born in 1959 and grew up in the Appenzell region. At the age of 15, he switched from figure skating to ballet. Just two years later he was chosen as the best Swiss dancer
    [Show full text]
  • Nussknacker Und Mausekönig
    NUSSKNACKER UND MAUSEKÖNIG BEGLEITMATERIALIEN FÜR DEN UNTERRICHT 1 Inhalt Besetzung Nussknacker und Mausekönig 4 Garantiert jugendfrei 20 Wie E.T.A. Hoffmanns Nussknacker kastriert wurde Vorbemerkungen 5 Eine hochromantische, düstere Geschichte 22 Portrait Ballett Zürich 6 Gespräch mit Christian Spuck Lebenslauf von Christian Spuck 25 Einführung 6 Der Wendige 26 Handlung und Musik 8 Dominik Slavkovský 1. Akt 8 2. Akt 10 Treffen mit der Kostümbildnerin Buki Shiff 28 Lebenslauf Buki Shiff 30 Romantik 11 Romantik und Kunstmärchen 11 Ideen für den Unterricht 31 Tanzstile, Ausdrucksformen und Bewegungssprachen 31 E.T.A. Hoffmann – Jurist, Musiker und Schriftsteller 12 Wenn Dinge lebendig werden – erfinde deine eigene fantastische Geschichte 33 Nussknacker sein 34 Die Erzählung Nussknacker und Mausekönig 14 Non-verbale Kommunikation 35 Die Geschichte des Balletts Der Nussknacker 15 Kleines Tanzlexikon 36 Das Libretto 15 Erklärungen zu Fachausdrücken aus dem Bereich Bühnentanz, Musik und Bühne Die Musik 15 Musikalischer Aufbau des Balletts 16 Merkblatt zum Vorstellungsbesuch im Opernhaus Zürich 40 Die Choreografie 17 Die Uraufführung 17 Literatur, Musik, Links und Quellenangaben 41 Weitere Fassungen 17 Die Künstler des Nussknackers von 1892 18 Musik – Pjotr Iljitsch Tschaikowski 18 Libretto und Konzeption der Choreografie – Marius Petipa 19 Choreografie – Lew Iwanow 19 Nussknacker und Mausekönig Vorbemerkungen Ballett von Christian Spuck nach dem gleichnamigen Märchen von E.T.A. Hoffmann Neufassung des Szenariums von Claus Spahn, Musik von Pjotr
    [Show full text]
  • Spotlight and Hot Topic Sessions Poster Sessions Continuing
    Sessions and Events Day Thursday, January 21 (Sessions 1001 - 1025, 1467) Friday, January 22 (Sessions 1026 - 1049) Monday, January 25 (Sessions 1050 - 1061, 1063 - 1141) Wednesday, January 27 (Sessions 1062, 1171, 1255 - 1339) Tuesday, January 26 (Sessions 1142 - 1170, 1172 - 1254) Thursday, January 28 (Sessions 1340 - 1419) Friday, January 29 (Sessions 1420 - 1466) Spotlight and Hot Topic Sessions More than 50 sessions and workshops will focus on the spotlight theme for the 2019 Annual Meeting: Transportation for a Smart, Sustainable, and Equitable Future . In addition, more than 170 sessions and workshops will look at one or more of the following hot topics identified by the TRB Executive Committee: Transformational Technologies: New technologies that have the potential to transform transportation as we know it. Resilience and Sustainability: How transportation agencies operate and manage systems that are economically stable, equitable to all users, and operated safely and securely during daily and disruptive events. Transportation and Public Health: Effects that transportation can have on public health by reducing transportation related casualties, providing easy access to healthcare services, mitigating environmental impacts, and reducing the transmission of communicable diseases. To find sessions on these topics, look for the Spotlight icon and the Hot Topic icon i n the “Sessions, Events, and Meetings” section beginning on page 37. Poster Sessions Convention Center, Lower Level, Hall A (new location this year) Poster Sessions provide an opportunity to interact with authors in a more personal setting than the conventional lecture. The papers presented in these sessions meet the same review criteria as lectern session presentations. For a complete list of poster sessions, see the “Sessions, Events, and Meetings” section, beginning on page 37.
    [Show full text]
  • Incentives in China's Reformation of the Sports Industry
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Keck Graduate Institute Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont CMC Senior Theses CMC Student Scholarship 2017 Tapping the Potential of Sports: Incentives in China’s Reformation of the Sports Industry Yu Fu Claremont McKenna College Recommended Citation Fu, Yu, "Tapping the Potential of Sports: Incentives in China’s Reformation of the Sports Industry" (2017). CMC Senior Theses. 1609. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1609 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you by Scholarship@Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in this collection by an authorized administrator. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Claremont McKenna College Tapping the Potential of Sports: Incentives in China’s Reformation of the Sports Industry Submitted to Professor Minxin Pei by Yu Fu for Senior Thesis Spring 2017 April 24, 2017 2 Abstract Since the 2010s, China’s sports industry has undergone comprehensive reforms. This paper attempts to understand this change of direction from the central state’s perspective. By examining the dynamics of the basketball and soccer markets, it discovers that while the deregulation of basketball is a result of persistent bottom-up effort from the private sector, the recentralization of soccer is a state-led policy change. Notwithstanding the different nature and routes between these reforms, in both sectors, the state’s aim is to restore and strengthen its legitimacy within the society. Amidst China’s economic stagnation, the regime hopes to identify sectors that can drive sustainable growth, and to make adjustments to its bureaucracy as a way to respond to the society’s mounting demand for political modernization.
    [Show full text]
  • Business Risk of Crime in China
    Business and the Ris k of Crime in China Business and the Ris k of Crime in China Roderic Broadhurst John Bacon-Shone Brigitte Bouhours Thierry Bouhours assisted by Lee Kingwa ASIAN STUDIES SERIES MONOGRAPH 3 THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY E PRESS E PRESS Published by ANU E Press The Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Email: [email protected] This title is also available online at: http://epress.anu.edu.au/ National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Title: Business and the risk of crime in China : the 2005-2006 China international crime against business survey / Roderic Broadhurst ... [et al.]. ISBN: 9781921862533 (pbk.) 9781921862540 (ebook) Notes: Includes bibliographical references. Subjects: Crime--China--21st century--Costs. Commercial crimes--China--21st century--Costs. Other Authors/Contributors: Broadhurst, Roderic G. Dewey Number: 345.510268 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Cover design and layout by ANU E Press Cover image: The gods of wealth enter the home from everywhere, wealth, treasures and peace beckon; designer unknown, 1993; (Landsberger Collection) International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Printed by Griffin Press This edition © 2011 ANU E Press Contents Foreword . vii Lu Jianping Preface . ix Acronyms . xv Introduction . 1 1 . Background . 25 2 . Crime and its Control in China . 43 3 . ICBS Instrument, Methodology and Sample . 79 4 . Common Crimes against Business . 95 5 . Fraud, Bribery, Extortion and Other Crimes against Business .
    [Show full text]
  • Virtual Shanghai
    ASIA mmm i—^Zilll illi^—3 jsJ Lane ( Tail Sttjaca, New Uork SOif /iGf/vrs FO, LIN CHARLES WILLIAM WASON COLLECTION Draper CHINA AND THE CHINESE L; THE GIFT OF CHARLES WILLIAM WASON CLASS OF 1876 House 1918 WINE ATJD~SPIRIT MERCHANTS. PROVISION DEALERS. SHIP CHANDLERS. yigents for jfidn\iratty C/jarts- HOUSE BOATS supplied with every re- quisite for Up-Country Trips. LANE CRAWFORD 8 CO., LTD., NANKING ROAD, SHANGHAI. *>*N - HOME USE RULES e All Books subject to recall All borrowers must regis- ter in the library to borrow books fdr home use. All books must be re- turned at end of college year for inspection and repairs. Limited books must be returned within the four week limit and not renewed. Students must return all books before leaving town. Officers should arrange for ? the return of books wanted during their absence from town. Volumes of periodicals and of pamphlets are held in the library as much as possible. For special pur- poses they are given out for a limited time. Borrowers should not use their library privileges for the benefit of other persons Books of special value nd gift books," when the giver wishes it, are not allowed to circulate. Readers are asked to re- port all cases of books marked or mutilated. Do not deface books by marks and writing. - a 5^^KeservaToiioT^^ooni&^by mail or cable. <3. f?EYMANN, Manager, The Leading Hotel of North China. ^—-m——aaaa»f»ra^MS«»» C UniVerS"y Ubrary DS 796.S5°2D22 Sha ^mmmmilS«u,?,?llJff travellers and — — — — ; KELLY & WALSH, Ltd.
    [Show full text]
  • Yao Ming Biography from Current Biography International Yearbook
    Yao Ming Biography from Current Biography International Yearbook (2002) Copyright (c) by The H. W. Wilson Company. All rights reserved. In his youth, the Chinese basketball player Yao Ming was once described as a "crane towering among a flock of chickens," Lee Chyen Yee wrote for Reuters (September 7, 2000). The only child of two retired professional basketball stars who played in the 1970s, Yao has towered over most of the adults in his life since elementary school. His adult height of seven feet five inches, coupled with his natural athleticism, has made him the best basketball player in his native China. Li Yaomin, the manager of Yao's Chinese team, the Shanghai Sharks, compared him to America's basketball icon: "America has Michael Jordan," he told Ching-Ching Ni for the Los Angeles Times (June 13, 2002), "and China has Yao Ming." In Yao's case, extraordinary height is matched with the grace and agility of a much smaller man. An Associated Press article, posted on ESPN.com (May 1, 2002), called Yao a "giant with an air of mystery to him, a player who's been raved about since the 2000 Olympics." Yao, who was eager to play in the United States, was the number-one pick in the 2002 National Basketball Association (NBA) draft; after complex negotiations with the Chinese government and the China Basketball Association (CBA), Yao was signed to the Houston Rockets in October 2002. Yao Ming was born on September 12, 1980 in Shanghai, China. His father, Zhiyuan, is six feet 10 inches and played center for a team in Shanghai, while his mother, Fang Fengdi, was the captain of the Chinese national women's basketball team and was considered by many to have been one of the greatest women's centers of all time.
    [Show full text]
  • Shanghai 2020
    Deloitte China Research and Insight Centre Special issue, July 2010 Measuring Value® Shanghai 2020 Defining the challenge Secretary Yu Zhengsheng was quoted as saying Shanghai hosted two major events this June, a “Shanghai embraces advice and suggestions on meeting of the Shanghai International Financial how to grow better as a global financial center.” Advisory Committee and a Forum in Shanghai’s The goal itself and the openness of leaders financial center of Lujiazui on financial reform. to discussion of it are important to domestic Both events engaged Shanghai’s top Party and foreign business interests. The process will and government officials, all key Chinese accelerate changes as the city leaders identify financial regulators and a blue ribbon group of what Secretary Yu called “initiatives to break international business leaders. through the bottleneck that limits the city’s rise in the financial area.” (Shanghai Daily, 27 Jun 2010). Both events ultimately were about Shanghai’s goal to become a global financial center by 2020. This sharp assessment was echoed by Tu Guangshao, Shanghai’s deputy mayor in charge Both events demonstrated that Shanghai is serious of the city’s financial industry. Tu emphasised about this goal, and the leaders are looking far the need to open the city to more financial and wide to improve their understanding of the professionals, citing what he called a “severe best way to get there. Amidst some comments lack of experienced professionals in areas such as from the outside that China appears very financial technology and financial marketing.” satisfied - perhaps too satisfied - with what it has accomplished, throughout reforms and in the wake of the global financial crisis, Shanghai Party Global financial centers, today and tomorrow We see the convergence of these three The world is watching a series of meetings of the G8, G20 and other groups focused on the factors - a serious commitment to this architecture of a new global financial order and goal, admission of current regulatory framework.
    [Show full text]
  • 25 C Dh the ESPERANTO I:LECTRIC CHAIR Will Be Tit
    J nuary 1921 25 C Dh The ESPERANTO I:LECTRIC CHAIR will be tit. fate of two innocent men if Have you ever stopped to think what a tre­ mendous advantage an international language LABOR dolS not interfere. ~ould be to the proletarian movement? The NICOLA SACCO and BARTHOLOMEW VANZETTI. two leading radicals of Europe, men like Barbusse, Italian labor agitators. are being charged with robbery and murder, a crime which even the preliminary evidence prol'ea Rolland, McCabe and Henderson, as well as the . they did not commit. This persecution is the direct result of race prejudice and Soviet Government, understand this very well the lawlessnelLs of the Department of ;rnstice, whIch cul­ and that is why they are supporting Esperanto. minated in the secret imprisonment and death of their friend Salsedo in New York. The ltallans of New England have raised among themselves The Metropolitan Esperanto Club is an organization of money tor the defense of their comrades. This money Is gone radicals, formed for the purpose of popularizing a sin­ and they have no more. Money is urgently needed tor investigations which nre gle international language among the workers of this spreading even to Italy to secure proof of their innocence and to place the story of theIr trame-up before the workers of the country. If you have vision and foresight we will ~lad­ country. ly welcome your cooperation in our work. TheIr deft-Dse is endorsed by the Al\IERICAN CIVIL LIB­ ERTIES UNION, the WORKERS' DEFENSE UNION and nu­ merous other American and Italian bodies.
    [Show full text]