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Shanghai Metropolis

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May 27th 2010
Shanghai is MASSIVE. With a population of over seventeen million, this city alone has more people than most countries. Of course skyscrapers are everywhere, and like seemingly every other city in China, construction is rampant. But this is truly an international city, it still is China but not in the way some might imagine. Shanghai was just a small fishing village until the mid 19th century when ... 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