View from Pearl tower - Shanghai

SHANGHAI pt1

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February 25th 2011
Sunday 13th February We arrived into Shanghai under the darkness of night and our tour guide holding our name board up tonight is Diana. As usual her English is very good and we are ushered to our waiting cab and driven off towards the city. Its about 40 minutes drive into Shanghai and already we can sense the enormity of the place as towering buildings shadow the roads and the distant glow of ... read more

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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