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Shanghai, China

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March 9th 2009
You need to find a really big pin for Shanghai!! There are twenty million (yes, I said 20,000,000) people living in the greater Shanghai area. It is the largest city in China and one of the largest cities in the world. It is growing by leaps and bounds. In the last 5 years alone its size has almost doubled. The picture of the skyscrapers on the ´new¡ side of the Yangtz river illustrates t ... 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