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Shanghai
Municipality with provincial status (pop., 1996 est.: 14,150,000), E central China. It is located on the Huangpu River, which allows oceangoing vessels access during high tide. It was settled c.AD 1000, and later under the Ming dynasty it was an area of intense cotton production. This changed when Shanghai became the first Chinese port opened to trade with the West after China's defeat by Britain in the Opium Wars (1842); it came to dominate the nation's commerce. The site of the Chinese Communist Party's founding in 1921, it saw severe fighting in the Sino-Japanese War and was occupied by Japan during World War II. Since the communist victory in 1949, it has become China's chief industrial and commercial center, and one of its leading centers of higher education and scientific research. It is the focus of China's special economic zones which have been established to foster foreign trade.
sheikh
Among Arabic-speaking tribes, especially Bedouin, the male head of the family, as well as of each successively larger social unit making up the tribal structure. The sheikh is assisted by an informal tribal council of male elders. The word may also be used as a title or form of respectful address or to designate a religious authority.
sheng
(Chinese: "sage" or "saint") In Chinese belief, a mortal who attains extraordinary or supernatural powers by self-cultivation and serves as a model for others. Confucius used the term to refer to exemplary rulers of the past.
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