Return Trip - Day 13: Shanghai

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April 24th 2015
We flew into Shanghai last pm and arrived at our hotel a little after midnight. After a good night's rest we ventured out to the Bund - the waterfront along the the Huangpu River. Apparently this area was largely rice fields until the early 1990s when the Chinese government started implementing free market policies. Since then, there has been a huge amount of construction resulting in a remarkable ... 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