上海作为一个城市的历史不过七百多年,而其中作为国际性大都市的历史则有一个多世纪。自19世纪中叶上海开埠通商后的短短数十年间,便从普通的滨海县城发展成为一个真正的世界大都市。到20世纪前叶,上海已经成为“东方的巴黎”。从那个时候开始,上海便是中国对外来文化最包容的 Shanghai, as a city, has no more than seven hundred years of history, and its history as an international metropolis has more than a century. Since just a few decades after the opening of ports of commerce in Shanghai in the mid-19th century, it has evolved from an ordinary coastal town to a truly cosmopolitan city. By the twentieth century, Shanghai had become “the Paris of the East.” Since then, Shanghai has been China's most inclusive foreign culture