Not much time for blogging today... I am in Shanghai... my beautiful "Whore of the Orient"... my sweet "Paris of the East". This morning we went to Lake Tai and a fresh water pearl place... but then on to wonderful Shanghai.
From the bus I glanced its sprawling urban-ity... its high rises (over 8000 buildings of 20+ stories)... its densely packed slums (over 10 people per room... not apartment... room)... its latest status symbol clogging its arteries (the government now limits 5000 license plates per month). Upon stepping on the Bund and glancing at the rush of China's past (concession land granted to Britain, France, and America) and future (the new Bund home to the next largest building in the world), I knew that I had found the source of the siren song that seduced me to China.
Now off to explore more!
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