Definition of "Shanghae"

Before leaving Nankin, the Imperial Commissioners gave a grand entertainment to a great many officers of the Navy and Army, during which professions of the most friendly feelings on both sides were not wanting ; and we learn that whenever English officers went on shore the people behaved very peaceably. Shanghae has been visited by several of them, and all speak in the highest terms of the beauty of its situation, and of the advantages it is likely to offer as a place of trade. The Chinese themselves seem to anticipate the future intercourse with foreigners, and the profits they are likely to derive therefrom, with considerable satisfaction ; and behave, mandarins as well as common people, with great politeness towards their visitors.

1843 February 11, “CHINA.”, in The Gardeners' Chronicle‎, number 6, page 91, column 3

The difficulty, then, was to obtain for our country, whilst remaining at peace, the same commercial advantages which England and France might acquire by war. This task our Minister performed with tact, ability, and success, by the conclusion of the treaty of Tientsin of the 18th June, 1858, and the two supplemental conventions of Shanghae of the 8th November following.* These have placed our commercial relations with China on the same satisfactory footing with those of England and France, and have resulted in the actual payment of the full amount of all the just claims of our citizens, leaving a surplus to the credit of the Treasury. This object has been accomplished, whilst our friendly relations with the Chinese Government were never for a moment interrupted, but on the contrary have been greatly strengthened.

1866, James Buchanan, Mr. Buchanan's Administration on the Eve of the Rebellion‎, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 264

The mapping inside China was unclear and somewhat contradictory. Many of our vessels sailed the waters between Hong Kong in the south and Shanghae to the north and the maps of the coastline and of those places a day or two’s journey from port were excellent.

2009, Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin‎, Avon, page 121