Skyline View

East meets West in Shanghai

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August 7th 2006
Wow, Shanghai is amazing...what a beautiful city. It was all built up in the past 15 years and what an amazing skyline they have created. This was our first real look at city life in China (Beijing is a city, but still relativley behind the times). Shanghai was very much like New York, except we were told that it is very easy to live on both a million dollar salary and one more like 500/year. ... read more

Asia » China » Shanghai

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more