Shanghai Old and New

What’s it like to visit the world’s largest city proper (as opposed to greater metropolitan area, which is Tokyo)? A city on the mouths of the Yangtze and Huangpo River roughly midway along the South China Sea coast where the numbers boggle – 24 million spread across 6,340 square kilometres (2,450 sq. miles), now with a highrise skyline and megadeveloment that has transformed Shanghai a prime symbol of the thrusting 21st-century power of China while still preserving in parts a fair amount of traditional charm, the legacy of a history reaching back to the 8th century BC... keep reading