Shanghai--Whore of the East! Your exquisite beauty mystifies me with every turn we take along your labyrinthine roads and alleys from the days of Noir. Everywhere the smell of life, death, money, jasmine, tires, and orange. I love riding bus 830 through your flashing streets midst nights of wire. Watching the "joy of being here" on the faces of the poor, as they jump between the jagged hazards, of every conceivable form of transport and flotsam known to human kind, just to cross her roads. Shanghai is the richest and largest city in this bizarre netherworld called China. It's the biggest and best this country has to offer. Shanghai has been the largest trade center in Asia for over 150 years. Money flows like the blood, liquor, and opiates that feed it's hungry furnace. Permeating every
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