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Shanghai's relatively small city center makes it easy to navigate. It consists of two basic districts, Pu Xi (western town) and Pu Dong (eastern town), facing one another across the Huang Pu River. As a general rule, Pu Xi embodies "Old Shanghai" and Pu Dong represents "New Shanghai." Excellent examples of this dichotomy are characterized within the … Read Shanghai introduction
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Introduction
Shanghai is a scintillating city swirling with rapid cultural change. Since market restrictions were lifted, it has embraced the forces of business and design and rewritten its rule book shaping a fresh, new city that is sophisticated, innovative and living a life it has never lived before.
Not to miss
Jinmao Tower Shanghai's most spectacular building, visible from almost everywhere in the city, is largely an office block, but boasts stupendous views from the 88th-floor observatory. It's accessed from the separate building to the side of the main tower. Room With a View Gallery Art critic Wu …
Facts for the Traveller
Population : 17000000 Area : 6340km² Longitude / Latitude : 121.4729996 / 31.24799919 Currency : Yuan Renminbi (CNY) Weights & Measures system : Metric
Getting there & Getting around
Getting there Shanghai is easy to get to. It is China's second-largest international air hub (third-largest if you count Hong Kong) and if you can't fly direct, you can go via Beijing or Hong Kong. With rail and air connections to places all over China, ferries travelling up the Yangzi River, many …
History
Recent History Today the city continues to grow apace, with new underground stations, highways crisscrossing the city, the most modern stock exchange in the world, a swish new airport, two giant bridges and a whole new city in Pudong. Perhaps no city in the world is as futuristic, and Shanghai has …
Weather
Shanghai starts the year shivering in midwinter, when temperatures can drop below freezing and the vistas are grey and misty. Spring brings warmth; April to mid-May is probably one of the best times to visit weather-wise, along with autumn (late September to mid-November). In summer the hot and …
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Overview of Shanghai
If one simply counts heads, Shanghai is the biggest city in the biggest country on Earth. If one simply scans statistics, this is China's capital of commerce, industry, and finance. But numbers don't tell the whole Shanghai story. Shanghai has a colonial past more intense than that of any other …
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In the 1990s, Shanghai emerged as the center of China's economic resurgence. A gathering of cultures, this was once a place where rich taipans walked the same streets as gamblers, prostitutes, and beggars, and Europeans fleeing the Holocaust lived alongside Chinese intellectuals and …
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