Lost Heaven

Shanghai pour le weekend

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May 24th 2007
ANGLAIS Hello and thanks again to Juice and Sarah who looked after us for our long weekend in Shanghai. We drank champagne and generally lorded it up, as you do in Shanghai. We also spent some wandering the Bund, taking the cheesy tourist tunnel across the river, window shopping in boutiques and having drinks at the top of the Jinbao tower, which is pretty high up. FRENCH Amie ... 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