Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Woosung Road or Railway was a 19th-century, 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge passenger railway in Shanghai, China, between the outskirts of the American Concession in the modern town's Zhabei District and Wusong in Baoshan District. Surreptitiously conceived and constructed, it ran for less than a year before it was purchased and dismantled by the Qing viceroy Shen Pao-chen. The line would not be rebuilt for twenty years. This fate was a commonly invoked symbol of the Qing dynasty's backwardness and insularity, despite the road's admitted illegality and numerous legitimate objections voiced by the Chinese during its construction and operation.Its route – still primarily rural as late as the turn of the century – now forms part of the Shanghai Metro's elevated Line 3."@en }
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- Woosung_Road abstract "The Woosung Road or Railway was a 19th-century, 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge passenger railway in Shanghai, China, between the outskirts of the American Concession in the modern town's Zhabei District and Wusong in Baoshan District. Surreptitiously conceived and constructed, it ran for less than a year before it was purchased and dismantled by the Qing viceroy Shen Pao-chen. The line would not be rebuilt for twenty years. This fate was a commonly invoked symbol of the Qing dynasty's backwardness and insularity, despite the road's admitted illegality and numerous legitimate objections voiced by the Chinese during its construction and operation.Its route – still primarily rural as late as the turn of the century – now forms part of the Shanghai Metro's elevated Line 3.".
- Q835783 abstract "The Woosung Road or Railway was a 19th-century, 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge passenger railway in Shanghai, China, between the outskirts of the American Concession in the modern town's Zhabei District and Wusong in Baoshan District. Surreptitiously conceived and constructed, it ran for less than a year before it was purchased and dismantled by the Qing viceroy Shen Pao-chen. The line would not be rebuilt for twenty years. This fate was a commonly invoked symbol of the Qing dynasty's backwardness and insularity, despite the road's admitted illegality and numerous legitimate objections voiced by the Chinese during its construction and operation.Its route – still primarily rural as late as the turn of the century – now forms part of the Shanghai Metro's elevated Line 3.".