Hongkou District is a northern district of Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

 proper, People's Republic of China

People's Republic of China

China , officially the People's Republic of China , is the most populous country in the world, with over 1.3 billion citizens. Located in East Asia, the country covers approximately 9.6 million square kilometres...

. It has a land area of 23.48 km² (9.1 sq mi) and population of 799,700 as of 2001.

It is the location of the Astor House Hotel

Astor House, Shanghai

The Astor House Hotel , known as the Pujiang Hotel in Chinese since 1959, which has been described as once "one of the famous hotels of the world", "the pride of Shanghai", "a landmark of modern Shanghai", and perhaps hyperbolically as "once the most luxurious hotel in the world", was the first...

, Broadway Mansions, Lu Xun Park

Lu Xun Park (Shanghai)

Lu Xun Park , formerly Hongkou Park, is a municipal park in Hongkou District of Shanghai, the People's Republic of China. The park is located on 146 East Jiangwan Road, right behind the Hongkou Stadium.- History :...

 and the Lu Xun memorial.

Hongkou is home to the Shanghai International Studies University

Shanghai International Studies University

Shanghai International Studies University is a research, teaching, and multidisciplinary university based in Shanghai, People's Republic of China. Founded in December 1949 as the former Shanghai Russian School, SISU is one of the top two universities that specialise in studying foreign languages...

 (SISU) and the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. Fuxing High School and Shanghai Foreign Language School Affiliated to SISU (SFLS) are the best High schools in this area

History

During the Second World war

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 when the city was occupied by the Japanese, 20,000 Jewish refugees from Nazi

Nazism

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

-occupied Europe lived in a notoriously overcrowded square-mile section known to the West as the Shanghai ghetto

Shanghai ghetto

The Shanghai ghetto, formally known as the , was an area of approximately one square mile in the Hongkou District of Japanese-occupied Shanghai, to which about 20,000 Jewish refugees were relocated by the Japanese-issued Proclamation Concerning Restriction of Residence and Business of Stateless...

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