《上海外滩源(英文版)》内容简介：Shanghai had taken its pace for urban modernization since it became a commerciai port in 1843.To the 1920s and 1930s,Shanghai had become China s largest port and a supper city with the highest level of modern technology and the most developed industry and commerce,ranking among international metropolis .With its flourishing commerce,fashipnable life,comfortable environment,Shanghai is no less than the major cities in Europe and the United States at all, and therefore it enjoys the reputation of "Oriental Paris".In the process of mondernization, it absorbs the Western foreign culture with an open mind and integrates it with the local culture to form its unique characteristics. Since the founding of New China, Shanghai has always proceeded in the front of national economic construction as well as the reform and opening up, and it functions as an important window and modern international metropolis reflecting China s achievements in national construction. However, a group of buildings and sites that reflect the Western foreign culture are still indelible memories of the city, and Waitanyuan,which is located at the intersection of Huangpu River and Suzhou River, is the very landmark for a concentrated reflection of this cultural accumulation.