{"id":8128,"date":"2026-10-26T00:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T07:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2026-10-31T18:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T01:42:21","slug":"shanghai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/2026\/10\/26\/shanghai\/","title":{"rendered":"Sh\u00e0ngh\u01cei"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 style=\"display: none\">&nbsp;<\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"display: none\">&nbsp;<\/h2>\n<h3>\n\t\t\t<span onclick=\"plus(this)\" class=\"hand\">Sh\u00e0ngh\u01cei<sup class=\"plus\">+<\/sup><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo a\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(Sh\u00e0ng\u00b7h\u01cei\n\t\t\t<span class=\"lit\">Upon \u00b7 {the Sea} \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Shanghai]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u4e0a\u6d77)<\/span>\n\n\t\t\t<span style=\"color: hsl(100, 85%, 40%);\"> \ud83d\udc48\ud83c\udffc Tap\/click to show\/hide the \u201cflashcard\u201d<\/span>\n<\/h3>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanghai\" title=\"Shanghai - Wikipedia\">Shanghai<\/a> is well-known as an exceptionally populous and prosperous city in China. Of at least some interest to Mandarin field language learners, Wikipedia reports that <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanghainese\" title=\"Shanghainese - Wikipedia\">Shanghainese<\/a> is the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prestige_(sociolinguistics)\" title=\"Prestige (sociolinguistics) - Wikipedia\">prestige variety<\/a> or prestige dialect of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wu_Chinese\" title=\"Wu Chinese - Wikipedia\">Wu Chinese<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/2025\/05\/19\/yuzu-2\/\" title=\"y\u01d4z\u00fa - Mandarin Expression of the Week\">language branch<\/a>, and that there are estimated to be <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shanghainese#:~:text=15%2E86%20million\" title=\"Shanghainese - Wikipedia\">about 16 million<\/a> speakers of Shanghainese, out of the approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wu_Chinese#:~:text=83%20million\" title=\"Wu Chinese - Wikipedia\">83 million<\/a> speakers of some variety of Wu Chinese.<\/p>\n<p>This reminds me that one of the things I realized soon after I went from the Cantonese field to the Mandarin field is that there are actually many different peoples in the world who are called \u201cChinese\u201d, peoples who have different cultures and who speak different languages, including Shanghainese. Indeed, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/troubadourworks.com\/tiandi\/meotw\/2024\/04\/14\/yueyu\/\" title=\"Yu\u00e8y\u01d4 - Mandarin Expression of the Week\">MEotW post<\/a> on <span onclick=\"plus(this)\" class=\"hand\"><i>\u201cYu\u00e8y\u01d4<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t\t\t(Yu\u00e8\u00b7y\u01d4\n\t\t\t<span class=\"mt\">Yue \u00b7 Language [\u2192 [Cantonese]]<\/span>\n\t\t\t\u7ca4\u8bed\n\t\t\t<span class=\"trad\">\u7cb5\u8a9e<\/span>)<\/span><i>\u201d<\/i> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 1em\"><p>\nWhile the central government of China wants everyone to just think of China as one monolithic political entity that should be governed by them, the central government, modern China actually is made up of many different parts. If it wasn\u2019t for <span onclick=\"plus(this)\" class=\"hand\"><i>Q\u00edn Sh\u01d0hu\u00e1ng<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t((Q\u00edn\n\t<span class=\"lit\">{Qin (dynasty)}<\/span>\n\t\u79e6)\n\t(Sh\u01d0\u00b7hu\u00e1ng\n\t<span class=\"lit\">Beginning \u00b7 Emperor<\/span>\n\t\u59cb\u7687)\n\t<span class=\"mt\">(the founder of the <i>Q\u00edn<\/i> dynasty and the first emperor of China)<\/span>)<\/span> (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qin_Shi_Huang\" title=\"Qin Shi Huang - Wikipedia\">Wikipedia article<\/a>), who (rather forcefully) united several warring states and became the first emperor of China, China could have ended up like modern Europe, with its several independent nations.<\/p>\n<p>\tThese different parts of modern China, that in an alternate timeline could have become independent nations, each have their own history, including their own <em>linguistic<\/em> history\u2014just like modern France, Spain, Germany, etc. have historically had their own mutually unintelligible languages, modern <span onclick=\"plus(this)\" class=\"hand\"><i>Gu\u01cengd\u014dng<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t(Gu\u01ceng\u00b7d\u014dng\n\t<span class=\"lit\">Wide \u00b7 East \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Guangdong (Canton) Province]<\/span>\n\t\u5e7f\u4e1c\n\t<span class=\"trad\">\u5ee3\u6771<\/span>)<\/span><i>,<\/i> <span onclick=\"plus(this)\" class=\"hand\"><i>Sh\u00e0ngh\u01cei<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t(Sh\u00e0ng\u00b7h\u01cei\n\t<span class=\"lit\">Upon \u00b7 {the Sea} \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Shanghai]<\/span>\n\t\u4e0a\u6d77)<\/span><i>,<\/i> <span onclick=\"plus(this)\" class=\"hand\"><i>F\u00faji\u00e0n<\/i><\/span><span class=\"plusinfo\" onclick=\"minus(this)\">\n\t(F\u00fa\u00b7ji\u00e0n\n\t<span class=\"lit\">{Blessing (abbr. for the city name <i>F\u00fazh\u014du<\/i>)} \u00b7 {Established (abbr. for the city name <i>Ji\u00e0nzh\u014du<\/i>)} \u2192<\/span> <span class=\"mt\">[Fujian (Province)]<\/span>\n\t\u798f\u5efa)<\/span><i>,<\/i> etc. also have historically had their own mutually unintelligible languages, even if China\u2019s central government would like everyone to just (erroneously) call them dialects of \u201cChinese\u201d.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>A Gold Rush Leads to Shanghaiing<\/h4>\n<p>Not as well known as Shanghai\u2019s current prosperous and respected status is why \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/words\/shanghai\" title=\"shanghai - definition and meaning\">shanghai<\/a>\u201d is used in English to mean \u201cto kidnap (a man) for compulsory service aboard a ship, especially after drugging him\u201d, or \u201cto induce or compel (someone) to do something, especially by fraud or force\u201d. Recently, I came across an article on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworldofchinese.com\/\" title=\"How People Live in Contemporary China | The World of Chinese\">The World of Chinese<\/a> entitled \u201c\u2009<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theworldofchinese.com\/2026\/10\/how-shanghai-became-a-verb\/\" title=\"\u201cShanghai\u201d Beyond the Map: The Story of an English Verb\">\u2018Shanghai\u2019 Beyond the Map: The Story of an English Verb<\/a>\u201d, which provides some background on this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"margin-top: 1em\"><p>\nBut the answer to how \u201cshanghai\u201d became an action rather than merely a destination lies in the American West during the turbulent mid-19th century.<\/p>\n<p>The California Gold Rush transformed sleepy Pacific ports like San Francisco into booming maritime hubs virtually overnight. More than a thousand merchant vessels sailed into San Francisco Bay, many of them promptly abandoned by their crews, who jumped ship to seek fortunes in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Ship captains found themselves stranded with hulls full of cargo and few hands to man the sails.<\/p>\n<p>Because long-distance voyages in the 19th century were extremely hazardous and physically punishing, few ordinary men were willing to volunteer for the sea. Compounding the situation was strict federal legislation dating back to 1790, which made it a punishable crime for a sailor to leave a ship before the end of his contracted voyage. Although originally intended to maintain order in the merchant marine, the law effectively created an inescapable trap. Once a sailor signed a ship\u2019s register, he was legally bound to the vessel under pain of imprisonment, regardless of how his signature had been obtained. Desperate sea captains, in urgent need of crews, were prompted to secure men by any means necessary\u2014even if it meant resorting to outright kidnapping through brute force, liquor, or drugs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>As Merriam-Webster notes, this unscrupulous practice became inextricably linked with one particular Chinese port: Shanghai, newly opened to foreign trade after the Opium War of 1840, was a far-flung and dangerous destination for American shipping, and an unpopular one among seamen because of the difficulty of securing return passage. Because of the scarcity of willing men for these voyages, many kidnapped sailors ended up on ships bound for China, and \u201cshanghaiing\u201d became the universal name for the act itself regardless of the destination.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShanghai\u201d occupies a special category as a true toponymic verb\u2014a word born directly from a geographic location. It captures a universal human experience: the sudden realization that one has been tricked or forced into something they never intended.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h4>Don\u2019t Let Yourself Get Shanghaied in the Mandarin Field<\/h4>\n<p>We Mandarin field language learners should be in the Mandarin field to glorify Jehovah and to share Bible truth with Mandarin-speaking people. Let us not allow ourselves to be shanghaied or manipulated into glorifying worldly Chinese culture by those who love this merely human culture for its own sake, or by those who are irrationally attached to the long-standing cultural traditions related to Chinese characters.<\/p>\n<p>As this year\u2019s convention reminded us, Jesus did not let anyone shanghai him into supporting the traditions of his day that made it significantly more difficult than it should have been for people to serve God, such as the traditions related to the Sabbath, which affected people one day a week. So, as Jesus\u2019 followers, neither should we allow ourselves to be deceived or pressured into supporting\u2014rather than just tolerating when they can\u2019t be avoided\u2014the traditions related to Chinese characters, which unnecessarily egregiously burden Mandarin field language learners every single day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shanghai is well-known as an exceptionally populous and prosperous city in China. 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