Abstract:

In the mixed areas of Chinese and foreigners in modern Shanghai, there appear some interracial marriages, most of which are informal, thus producing a halfbreed question. Although there is no exact statistics of halfbreed in modern Shanghai, its number must be impressive, because, for this, foreign immigrants establish a kind of school specializing in the Eurasian halfbreed. Since they are neither recognized by the Shanghai foreign community nor accepted by the Chinese community in Shanghai, they unavoidably fall into the margins of two cultures, being in a rather awkward position in such aspects as employment and sociality. The reason why it has such an impact concerns about both different cultural gaps and complicated backgrounds of international politics. The interracial marriage and halfbreed involve in such questions as cultural tradition and national psychology, which is a valuable study topic of intercultural communication. But, for this research, there is hardly any information to draw. This essay, only based on the accumulated sporadic archives and other documents, makes a preliminary approach to this question.

Key words: in morndern times; Shanghai; interracial marriage; half-breed