Shanghai, Beijing, Cheng Du, Lhasa

"Shanghai's got to be an architect's heaven"

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China Picture by Hector Yague
Travel story: Shanghai, Beijing, Cheng Du, Lhasa

Shanghai



The Whore of Orient. That's how Shanghai has been re-branded over the years. A mid XIX century Western creation rather than an ancient Chinese city, Shanghai has become today China's second trading hub (and catching up quickly with Hong Kong), and economic experts point at Shanghai as the XXII century world's leading city, just as New York has been for the XX century, or London had been in the XIX. Indeed, the first impression I got... More