Why do you call Shanghai the magic capital?

The magic capital refers to Shanghai, and the magic capital is also another name for Shanghai.

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Magic Capital was one of the nicknames of Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s. Compared with western names such as Shanghai, the largest city in the Far East, and Paris in the East, Magic Capital was the customary name of Shanghai by the Japanese at that time. ?

At the beginning of the 20th century, Shao Feng Muramatsu, a Japanese writer living in Shanghai, called Shanghai the magic capital for the first time in his best-selling novel Magic Capital. Muramatsu is probably the first person to call Shanghai the magic capital, so the word magic capital is used by many people to describe the complex world of Shanghai. In this work, Hiromatsu Murakami invented the word "magic capital" to refer to Shanghai.

At that time, Shanghai was called the "magic capital" because it had a magical attribute that other cities in the world did not have, and the root of this magical attribute was the coexistence of "two different spaces" in Shanghai because of the establishment of the concession.

Due to the mutual infiltration and conflict between these "two different spaces" (that is, the concession and the county seat), Shanghai has become an unparalleled "compatible" city, which has produced various strange phenomena, which can be summarized by the word "magic capital".

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Shao Feng Muramatsu (1889 ~ 196 1), a Japanese writer, was born in a landlord family in Shizuoka prefecture. His masterpiece "Magic Capital" describes Shanghai during the Chinese Concession, and it is also the first time that Shanghai has been called the magic capital.

Magic Capital is the first book about China (to be exact, Shanghai) written by Shao Feng in 1923. It has been talked about numerous times by the research circles, and the image of Shanghai described and defined by him is still inherited by most Japanese.

He wrote nearly ten books about Japan, which had a wide influence at that time and later. Two novels written by him based on his travels in China, Shanghai and Beauty of Men's Wear, were recently photocopied and published as two editions of Selected Works of Foreign Literature by Tokyo Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, which shows that their influence in this respect has never diminished.

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Baidu Encyclopedia: Village Pine Tip Wind