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No, it is not. It is kidnapping, a felony offense.
To "Shanghai" someone is a slang term meaning to kidnap them and force them into involuntarily performing some type of work.
It derives from the days when sailors in the Chinese seaport of Shanghai (and other port cities) would be kidnapped and forced to work on outbound merchant vessels that had insufficient crew with which to sail.
It is somewhat analogous to the use by the British Royal Navy of "press gangs" when the same thing would happen when British warships lacked enough crew to sail them. The difference being - the Navy was operating under prevailing English Law of the time.
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