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One of those cities with a special ring to it, with a special name, history and also an independent place in its own country. It has been given several nicknames, Whore of the East, Paris of Asia, and others, and it is in full swing at this time in which China in general is modernizing at a fast pace, at least as far as the economy is concerned. A city dwarfing all others in China, and one of the biggest in Asia and the world with some 15 million inhabitants.
Where there are more cities in Asia with a high speed of development and modernization, that speeds reaches dizzying heights in Shanghai. Surely, there are still old buildings, impressive enough by themselves, which seem to try to retain the image of the old Shanghai alive. But in a very rapid way, highways and tunnels eat their way around in the city landscape, not just buildings, but entire building blocks are rebuilt or just created completely anew. Enormous shopping malls seek to still the Chinese consumer hunger which has been suppressed during the Communist Era.
Fortunately, at least at this moment, with a little bit of walking around typically Chinese backstreets can still be found. Instead of the frantically building sounds of the hundreds of construction sites, instead of the endless traffic noise, instead of the stressed people finding their way in the concrete jungle, there are laid back streets, quiet, peaceful, where people still just sit outside to watch TV, eat with their family and under their drying laundry flying on washing lines between the walls of their simple and modest houses. It can only be hoped that these areas will be overlooked by the merciless demolishment equipment of the city modernizers.
