[Chart of Shanghai] China Approaches to Yangtze Kiang from the Chinese Government Charts to 1941. With additions to 1946.

Nautical chart of the British Admiralty, in colour, of the vicinity of the Yangtze River, including part of the city of Shanghai, China. It represents Shanghai to the sea and the island and the bank of Chongming to the north, to the Shengsi and Saddle islands to the south. The chart captures Shanghai during and after the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), during which the city was greatly destroyed. The chart presents various dates of publication and improvement: a copyright in June 1947 and small corrections in 1947, 1948 and 1949. The chart shows the details of the coast, with its soundings, sandbanks, shoals, lighthouses and beacons. It provides information about the inland territory, such as details about the urbanisation of Shanghai, the walled cities of Caojing (Cholin), Fengxian (Fenghsien), Nanhui and Chuansha (where the Disney complex is today) and Baoshan (Paoshan), the roads leaving Shanghai and the various villages they connect, etc. Full title: China East Coast. Approaches to the Yangtze Kiang from the Chinese government charts to 1941 With additions to 1946. Colour lithograph. Rare.