Why was old Shanghai called "Whore of the Orient"?
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It tended to be more than just that, opium dens were prevalent there but so was gambling and the Self-Strengthening movement and the Kuomintang repression of the Communists. Shanghai was also considered the "Pearl of the Orient" as well as the "Paris of the East" because of its artistic and intellectual community. The names were used depending on whether or not you had a fondness for the city or not. I'd say that the use of the term you are looking at comes from people who had an issue with the Chinese or Shanghai itself, sure there was an underbelly there but I think you could find that in any well developed city in the world at the time.
Rather than the new LA Noir game I did find one College Course that gives some high level overview, I might have more at home but will need to look later.
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Shanghai was a center of "good living," hence the good nicknames, Pearl of the Orient and Paris of the East. But it was also a center of vices. These included opium, gambling, and "trafficking" in women.
For a woman to be "shanghaied" (in the slang of the day) was to be kidnapped into "white slavery" (prostitution).
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