Travelogs 3/2011: Discovering British Shanghai

Each issue of Spotlight includes an extra booklet called Travelogs. The focus is on a specific destination such as a single event, a museum, or a special district in a city, usually from somewhere around the English-speaking world.

The Travelogs booklet is like a travel diary. This makes it perfect to enjoy at home on the sofa, but it can just as well be used to plan a trip. And because we always like to include language-learning material in our products, the back page of the booklet has a list of useful vocabulary from the text.

Travelogs 3/2011 takes us to Shanghai. This was one of five Chinese ports given to the British after the first Opium War in 1842. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the riverside district known as the Bund was the centre of business transactions in Shanghai as it grew in importance as a city of international commerce. As its mainly Western architecture makes clear, the Bund represented the emergence on to the international stage of a very British Shanghai.