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Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse was an English humorous novelist. He was born in 1881 at Guildford, Surrey and died in 1975. Educated at Dulwich College he worked for the Hong Kong and Shanghai bank for two years before becoming a journalist and writer of short stories. Originally famous for his 1917 'Piccadilly Jim' during the Second World War he was captured by the Germans and agreed to make radio broadcasts for them. Branded a traitor, he settled in the USA after the war. Among the many books he wrote he invented the comic characters 'Jeeves and Wooster'.
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Sir Rutherford Alcock was an English diplomat. He was born in 1809 at London and died in 1897. After studying medicine at King's College he served as a medic in Spain during the Carlist War of 1833 to 1836. In 1844 he went to China as British consul, serving at Amoy and Shanghai where he was the pioneer of the model settlement of Shanghai. In 1859 he became minister plenipotentiary in Japan and from 1865 until his retirement in 1871 was minister plenipotentiary at Peking. In 1862 he was knighted.
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Sir Thomas Sutherland was a British shipowner. He was born in 1834 at Aberdeen and died in 1922. Educated at the university of Aberdeen he entered the Peninsular and Oriental Steamship Company, representing the company in China for some years. He helped to found the Hong Kong docks and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and became a member of the legislative council of the colony. He was chairman of the P & O line from 1880 until 1914 and member of parliament for Greenock from 1884 until 1900. He was created a KCMG in 1891 and GCMG in 1897.
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Edward Judd is an English actor. He was born in 1932 at Shanghai, China.
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Joan Chen (real name Chong Chen) is a Chinese actress, director and producer. She was born in 1961 at Shanghai.
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Ying Huan is a Chinese actress, singer and writer. She was born in 1968 at Shanghai.
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The Shanghai Virus is a computer virus which infects .COM files including COMMAND.COM. The virus is loaded into memory by executing an infected program and then affects the computer's runtime operation and corrupts program or overlay files.
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Empire Of The Sun is a Second World War drama starring Christian Bale, John Malkovich, Miranda Richardson, Nigel Havers and Leslie Phillips in a story based upon the novel by JG Ballard about a rich family forced to flee Shanghai when it is occupied by the Japanese in 1941. Empire Of The Sun was directed by Steven Spielberg in 1987.
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Shanghai Noon is a comedy western starring Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu and Brandon Merrill in a story about the emperor of China sending his three best guards to rescue a Chinese proncess held for ransom in the Wild West.
Shanghai Noon was directed by Tom Dey in 2000.
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Shanghai Surprise is an adventure starring Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman and Richard Griffiths in a story about a missionary persuading a car salesman to help her locate some stolen opium in 1930's China. Shanghai Surprise was directed by Jim Goddard in 1986.
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