Route in China (CHINA - Shanghai)

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Travel story: Route in China (CHINA - Shanghai)

Shanghai
Shanghai! The Paris of Asia of the last century had become the whore of Asia when Mao took over in '49. Capitalists fled and it stagnated, international trade going preferentially through Guangzhou and Hong Kong until recently. Now it is being born again and slated to surpass Hong Kong to become the trade and finance center of China and probably of Asia if not of the world in the 21st century. The venerable stone colonial buildings of the Bund shown here, are... More