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467:, North Caoxi Road, Oriental Shopping Mall.) Everything from cosmetics to cars to cucumbers is available within five minutes, but the type of product that Xujiahui is most famous for is electronics. It is one of the biggest places for people to get electronic equipment, from cameras to PSPs to Xboxes and modchips for those Xboxes and other game consoles as well. However, the biggest shopping mall for electronic equipment has closed in 2016. Currently, a brand new shopping center is under construction, it is located on Hongqiao Road, right beside the Grand Gateway. The new shopping center will officially open in 2016. 272: 336: 280: 432: 288: 264: 237: 206: 33: 420: 452: 536:, after whom the area and district are ultimately named. The tomb, recently restored according to its original set-up, is a curious combination of a large Christian cross as the grave marker, with a traditional Chinese "spirit way" lined with stone animals. Also located in the park is a traditional house relocated here as a result of urban redevelopment elsewhere in the district. 479:
is located in Xujiahui, to the north of the Xujiahui junction. While due to space limitations the university has moved its undergraduate department to a new campus on the outskirts of Shanghai, the Xujiahui campus still houses the university's School of International Education and several research
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The main Xujiahui shopping district is centered on the intersection of the streets Hongqiao Rd, Huashan Rd, Zhaojiabang Rd and North Caoxi Rd. Each of these streets terminates at the intersection, which is home to three supermarkets, six major shopping malls and nine large-scale office towers.
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In time, it became a stronghold of Catholics in East Asia. One of the first structures to be built by the Jesuits was the St. Ignatius Cathedral in 1847, later reconstructed in 1906. The Cathedral is located on what is now known as North Caoxi Road and is still referred to in English as the
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institutes. The campus is notable for a number of historic buildings dating from the early 20th century, including its imperial-style gate and remnants of the imperial-style marble bridges, reflecting the university's former status as the Imperial Polytechnic.
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established a grand cathedral as well as an entire one square mile complex that covers most of present-day Xujiahui. In addition to the cathedral, the French Jesuits also built orphanages, monasteries, schools, libraries and the
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From 1949 onwards, most of the large houses and estates in Xujiahui were compulsarily acquired or seized by the government and converted into factories. Up until the late 1990s, the area was predominantly an industrial area.
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On the location of a former brick factory now stands the Xujiahui park, which was completed in 2002. The park also contains a manmade meandering brook (miniature model of the course of the
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During the 18th century it was known by Shanghai's western residents as "Ziccawei" or "Siccawei" in English, and "Zikawei" or "Zi-ka-wei" in French, from the pronunciation of its name in
351:(or Xuhui Middle School). Established by Jesuits in 1850, Xuhui (St. Ignatius) College was the first educational institution in China to offer a fully western curriculum. Another is the 229:(Hsü Kuang-ch'i; 1562–1633), China's most notable Catholic convert. Most of what is now Xujiahui was once the ancestral home of the Xu family. Baptized by famed Italian Jesuit, 525:- also located in Xuhui district - often stages free performances during the Spring and Autumn months in the park, as these are the times when weather in Shanghai is the best. 459:
Xujiahui today is mainly a commercial area, though the Catholic church retains a significant presence and there are still educational and scientific institutions in the area.
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A number of other structures survive from its days as a center of Catholicism. One is the Collège Saint Ignace or Xuhui College on 68 Hongqiao Road, now renamed
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A river scene, with the mission and observatory, caption reads (in German): "Jesuiten Kloster mit Meteorolog. Observatorium in Zi-ca-wei bei Shanghai"
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Xujiahui means "Xu family junction" - more precisely, "property of Xu family at the junction of two rivers". The "Xu family" refers to the family of
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system was founded in Xujiahui at the end of the 19th century, and the historic main campus of its most prominent descendent school,
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The educational institutions founded by the Catholic church led to Xujiahui's reputation as a center of education. The
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While central Xujiahui was administratively part of the Chinese area of Shanghai, it was in reality controlled by the
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The main intersection at Xujiahui is a transportation hub. It is served by dozens of bus routes, and by the
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The former site of the Siccawei Observatory is now a part of the Shanghai Meteorological Center
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were sold off and torn down. Xujiahui is now mainly a retail district of downtown Shanghai.
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With land donated by Xu Guangqi's family and those acquired by other means, the
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The other notable park in Xujiahui is Guangqi Park, which features the
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The former Collège Saint Ignace, founded in 1850 and now
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Xujiahui Subdistrict was established in May 1994 as a
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was founded by the Jesuits in Xujiahui. The imperial
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Simplified Chinese
徐家汇
Traditional Chinese
徐家匯
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Wu
Shanghainese
Chinese
[ʑ̥i˨ka̠˥ɦɯe̞˨˩]
romanized
Shanghai
Xuhui District
Xujiahui Station
Shanghai Metro

tomb
Xu Guangqi
Shanghai
Xu Guangqi
Matteo Ricci

St. Ignatius Cathedral
Shanghainese
Bibliotheca Zi-Ka-Wei



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