THE DRAGON’S HEAD
Shanghai is the city where it’s worth making a life — and that will only become truer with time.
In the 1930s, it was known as the Paris of the East. Worse still, as the “whore of Asia.” Today, nearly a century later, Shanghai has become the new New York: the dragon’s head, the engine of development, the gateway to what is soon to be the richest country in the world.
Shanghai is the city where life is worth living — and increasingly so. The numbers prove it. A metropolis of twenty million, China’s most popular city among foreigners, a place where communism and capitalism have fused seamlessly, Shanghai is poised to become, within a few years, the world’s most influential financial hub, the strongest free trade zone, the true “center of the world” — as New Yorkers like to call their own city today.
The future runs through here. Twenty years ago, Pudong was a sprawl of low houses; today, some of the tallest skyscrapers on Earth rise there. Ten years ago, the subway had four lines; today, it has a dozen…
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