The rise of Shanghai: an explosive expansion is underway in this Chinese port city.(A LETTER FROM SHANGHAI)
From: National Catholic Reporter
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Date: 3/17/2006
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Author: O'Donovan, Leo J.
If Berlin was the construction site of Europe in the mid-1990s, the construction site of the world today is obviously Shanghai. So much building is underway that it is hard even for the best-informed commentators to be accurate. A recent New York Times story on Shanghai's building boom, for example, carried a front-page picture of the skyline and identified the building at the center of the picture as a Marriott hotel. Actually, it was the CITIC Square Building (China International ...
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