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Population: 14.2 million
Area: 6200 sq km
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Whore of the Orient Paris of the East: city of quick riches, ill-gotten gains and fortunes lost on the tumble of dice; the domain of adventures, swindlers, gamblers, drug runners, idle rich, dandies, tycoons, missionaries, gangsters and backstreet pimps; the city that plots revolution and dances as the revolution shoots its way into town-Shanghai was a dark memory during the long years of forgetting that the communists visited upon their new china; the city¡¯s seductive aura that so beguiled the western mind was snuffer out.

  Shanghai put away its dancing shoes in 1949. the masses began shuffling to a different tune- the dour strains of Marxist Leninism and the wail of the factory siren; and all through these years of oblivion, the architects of this social experiment firmly wedged one foot against the door on Shanghai¡¯s past; until finally the effort started to tell.

  Today Shanghai has reawakened and is busy snapping the dust off its summer bund. This is a city typifying the huge disparities of modern China- monumental building projects push skywards, glinting department stores swing open their doors to the stylish elite, while child beggars, prostitutes and the impoverished congregate among the champagne corks and burst balloons of the nigh before. History is returning to haunt Shanghai and, at the same time, to put it squaredly back on the map.

  As the pulse of this metropolis quickens, its steps are firmer, and at this point we make an apology. A lot of what you read in this guide will have changed by the time you have this book in your hands. The booming metropolis of Shanghai is evolving at a pace so unmatched by any other Chinese city that even the morning ritual of flinging open ones hotel curtains reveals new facets to the skyline and new sounds on the streets. Shanghai is racing full-speed towards the future and has little time for yesterday.