1949-1950: Fragments of Shanghai Memories

Text | Fellini

All the following stories, with the exception of individual derivatives, took place in Shanghai between 1949 and 1950. For understandable reasons, necessary modification and encryption were made in the writing.

This article can be read from any paragraph, and shuffling the order will not have any effect on perception.

The future chief designer Shopping and Lao Chen went to participate in the celebration. It was not far from the office to the venue, the street was not wide, and there were guards to protect, but after a few minutes walking to the venue, a Parker pen on Shopping's chest was was stolen. In his later years, when he came to Shanghai, he was still brooding, and he told people several times: Shanghai's thieves are really powerful.

In the first month of entering the city, Xiao Wang, a military vehicle driver, accidentally hit and killed Xiao Xiong, a student of Tongji University, on Tianping Road. After Wang was sentenced to death by a military court, his sentence was commuted to fixed-term imprisonment after appeals from the masses.

Before entering the city, the Sanye Political Department specially issued the "Urban Common Sense", which explained the "sidewalk": a narrow path slightly raised on both sides of the road. The booklet also reminds that because the US military used to be stationed in some cities, there are American-style khaki uniforms on the market, which are very popular with young students. Although these uniformed youths look a lot like Kuomintang officers and soldiers, they do not carry weapons, wear military caps, or wear leggings, so make no mistake.

On the night of May 26, 1949, Zhou Xinfang passed by the Daguang Theater and found that "the movie was crowded with people". I checked, and the big light screening that day was the 1933 British feature film The Lost Chord, starring John Stewart and Elizabeth Allan. There is no rating on Douban, there are "2 people want to watch". At the same time, Mei Qi released "Chaoyun Muyu".

A famous actor of Yue Opera, a few days before the city broke in May 1949, he was still leading Jimei to perform Lao Jun—in the city. Don't ask me how I know, I saw it with my own eyes when I checked the original of an old newspaper in the library in 1999. People are under the roof, and Lao Jun is not ashamed. What makes me rare is that the actor has a very soft figure, and he lives his life in both directions. Lao Jun is only a month old, that is, he will go north to the CPPCC. Humans confuse the pattern of fate, and only Lao Liu is likely to match it.

One day in 1949, Boss Mei had a dinner party. During the banquet, a group of capitalists seriously discussed whether they could "buy" the management rights of Shanghai from JFJ, and hand over US$15 million every year. I didn't make up this matter, it was written in Qi Rushan's memoirs.

On May 30, 1949, the "Golden Order No. 1 Order" issued by the Financial Division of the Financial and Economic Takeover Committee of the Shanghai Military Control Commission ordered "the Shanghai Stock Exchange to cease operations from now on." The next opening of the Shanghai Stock Exchange will be 41 years later.

One night in early February 1949, Commander Tang, one of the most familiar screen images of the old Shanghai people, once held a road show, the content of which was: "Bandits" invaded the North Station; A conflict occurred; "gangsters" were gathered in the racecourse; "gangsters" in Jiangwan attacked the Songhu Garrison Command at the bottom of the north Sichuan road. The exercise was "remarkable": "we were all surrounded and wiped out without a single leak", "the bandits retreated and eliminated", "the record was very good", and in the event of war in the future, you can "have no fear".

In July 1949, William Oliff, the deputy consul of the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai, was detained for three days after a collision with a mass parade on East Changzhi Road. Thirty-eight years later, Oliver's compatriot Spielberg was reported by the public for burning toxic and harmful substances while filming "Empire of the Sun" on the Bund, which is very close to East Changzhi Road. The Shanghai environmental protection department issued an environmental protection fine of RMB 50,000, which was later paid at a 30% discount through mediation.

During the National Day parade in 1949, a huge turtle appeared, with a big character on it: Jiang. The banner on the side of the porter reads "Shanghai Docks Union".

The woman who is the goddess of victory in cos in the same parade is very similar to Faye Wong. The Goddess of Victory is a bronze statue built with funds raised by the expatriates who returned to Shanghai to participate in the First World War. After the Japanese occupation, it was dismantled and melted into bullets. It was not rebuilt after World War II. The location is right on the Bund opposite Yan'an East Road.

The first neighborhood committee in Shanghai was the Baoxingli Residents Welfare Association of Huangpu District, which was established in December 1949. Shan Canbao, the first director of the neighborhood committee, female.

On February 6, 1950, in the famous "26th Bombing", the bombed Yangshupu Power Plant was still an asset of an American business, and the management was American and British. Yes, at that time, Yangshupu Power Plant could not be regarded as a "people's asset". KMT's plane departed from Zhoushan Airport, which had not yet been lost, and bombed the real estate that the "ally" could not move in Shanghai.

At the end of 1950, there were 30 districts in Shanghai. Before June of that year, Yangpu District was also called "Yangshupu District". In 1953, Shanghai even set up a "water zone" to manage boaters in the waters of the Huangpu River, Suzhou River and its tributaries.

Between 1949 and 1950, in order to reduce the "population who cannot directly engage in productive labor" in the city, a total of more than 12,000 people were sent to the northern Jiangsu reclamation area, of which 2,514 were minor criminals in Tilanqiao Prison and were sent as "homeless"; There are also thousands of orphans of KMT officers and street children in children's correctional institutions. The reclamation area said: Dafeng. A survey was done at that time, and less than 5% of the "homeless" were willing to settle down in the reclamation area. Statistics show that the exiled Shanghainese stubbornly transplanted their way of life to northern Jiangsu, and continued to drink coffee and listen to the record player in the small thatched hut by the tidal flat.

(The title picture is "Faye Wong")