Shanghai Swings!!!

[Cowperson]

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

Cowperson

[FlamesAddiction]

A friend of mine toured China for quite sometime. She told me how China is more like a bunch of separate countries, than one country with one system. This was about 3 years ago, and even then she told me how progressive Shanghai was, and that someone might think they were in a western city with how liberal it seemed.

Elsewhere in China, it was a different story of course. When in western China, citizens were very restricted, and had little access to anything from the outside world. At one point, she was even apprehended and forced out of the province. Apparently there was a terrorist attack, and they didn't want any foreigners around to be able to report on it.