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[[File:Shanghai 3.jpg|frame|The view from Pudong.]]

 

Not to be confused with "shanghaiing," which is a form of maritime kidnapping that was practiced in the 19th century before the advent of steam ships, or with ''[[Shanghai (video game)|Shanghai]]'', the first [[Mahjong Solitaire]] game for computers.

 

* ''[[Fist of the Blue Sky]]'' takes place in the pre-WWII Shanghai where Kasumi Kenshiro the master of Hokuto Shinken helps his friend, who is the leader of Qing Bang (Blue Gang), take over the city and build the said utopia called Shangri-La,

* The first few episodes of ''[[Senko no Night Raid]]'' is set in 1931 Shanghai, and presents it as what it really was: on the one hand a flourishing cosmopolitan city and on the other hand a crime-ridden city beset with political intrigues from local government agents, criminal [[Triad]]s and foreign agents.

* ''Man's Fate'' by André Malraux is about the crackdown against Shanghai Communists implemented by Jiang Jieshi in 1927 with the support of the Blue Gang.

* ''Fortress Besieged'' by Qian Zhongshu.

* ''Shanghai Baby'' is a semi-autobiographical novel by Zhou Weihui, about a young Chinese woman's steamy affair with a Western expatriate.

* The Inspector Chen Cao series of novels by Qiu Xiaolong: ''Death Of A Red Heroine'', ''A Loyal Character Dancer'', ''When Red Is Black'', ''A Case Of Two Cities'', etc.

* ''North of Beautiful'' by Justina Chen Headley partially takes place there, with the main character Terra's brother working there and Terra's love interest's orphanage is also there.

 

* ''The Bund'' (上海灘) is a Hong Kong classic [[Live Action TV]] series about the lives of Triad members in pre-war Shanghai and starring a young Chow Yun-fat.

* Episode 15 of Season 4 of ''[[Smallville]]'' ("Sacred") supposedly takes place in Shanghai but [[Hollywood Atlas|makes the city look like some North American Chinatown]], which it [[Did Not Do the Research|absolutely doesn't]].