New Reply

Post a Reply

Thread: Learn on Shanghai In Depth

Title: (100 characters at most)

Content: ( 3,000 characters at most, please )

You can add emoticons below to your post by clicking them.

[quote=COOLSPRINGS,290683]If you can ignore the inevitable growing pains of any booming city, the present and the future look rosy indeed. The question of if and when the bubble will burst (consider, in addition to the high housing prices, that you now generally pay more for a cup of coffee in Shanghai than back home), and other criticisms of superficiality, do not appear to have deterred Shanghai's detractors and all others who would seek a better life from arriving in droves to stake out their share of the spoils. With an unprecedented degree of freedom (at least since the pre-revolutionary days) to express themselves, whether through their fashions or their purchases, just as long as it's not in the arena of politics, Shanghainese seem content, for the moment at least, to go along with their government's experiment of developing a country through economic but not political freedom. Love them or hate them, the Shanghainese -- frank, efficient, chauvinistic, and progressive -- are using their previous international exposure to create China's most outward-looking, modern, brash, and progressive metropolis. Simply put, no city on Earth seems more optimistic about its future than Shanghai. A quick look through business and travel magazines and newspapers in the last year reveals that today's Shanghai is being hailed, once again, as the New York City or the Paris of China. Perhaps these comparisons are currently necessary to give foreigners a sense of the character and importance of the new Shanghai (and to entice visitors), but the pace and unique nature of Shanghai's current evolution suggest that one day in the not too distant future, Shanghai itself may well be the barometer city to which all others are compared.

[/quote]

characters left

Name:

Get a new code