SHANGHAI

Only in Shanghai do you find such contrasts. On opposite banks of the mighty Huangpu river, glittering skyscrapers of 21st Century expansion in Pudong face off with the colonial splendour of the Bund. A few moments from the decadent comforts of the French Concession - where in 1921 the Chinese Communist Party was born - you find yourself strolling in the traditionally oriental Old Quarter.

Meanwhile, people continue their daily lives in suburbs such as my own, Hongkou. And everywhere there is the overwhelming bustle, traffic, construction, dust, noise and smell of modern-day 'capitalism with a Chinese face'.

Old Shanghai

Teahouse and Willow	Mid Lake Pavilion Teahouse

New Shanghai

Smog and the City	Pearl Tower by Night	Pearl Tower by Day	Pearl Hotel

The Bund

Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation	HSBC and Customs House	HSBC and 'Crown' Tower	Night on The Bund	Reflections on The Bund

French Concession

Leafy street	Ivy Tower	Concession House	French Concession Street

Lu Xun Park, Hongkou district

Lu Xun Lake	Lu Xun's Tomb	City Glade

Exercises	Singalong	Mah Jong

'Jewish Quarter', Hongkou

Civic Building	Church	Hongkou Stadium

Acrobatics

Circus Tumbler	Parasol Pedicure	Magic Carpets

The Globe Of Death

Suzhou Hangzhou Qingdao Xiamen Gulang Yu
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