Shanghai, China, in a long slumber associated with Mao jackets, is emerging once more as a shining party light in the Orient.
Some might not remember it was like this once before.
Seduced like so many others by this sprawl of humanity, Aldous Huxley wrote in 1926: "Yes, it will all be there, just as intensely and tenaciously alive as ever—all there a thousand years hence, five thousand, ten. You have only to stroll through Shanghai to be certain of it. London and Paris offer no such certainty."
Communism, of course, stalled the full flowering of Huxley's brave new world. Shanghai slumbered for half a century. But today, the world's love child, a hybrid of history, is stepping out again, with not just Chinese but global aspirations.
Is China the new, emerging, force of the world?
http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/50104...ry.html?cnn=yes
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