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Anyone visiting Shanghai a decade ago inevitably felt a stab of regret. Instead of the city once hailed as "the Queen of the Pacific" they found a depressed industrial zone forgotten by the world. Not any more. Few visitors leave Shanghai these days without expressing wonder at its renaissance. Targeted in the 1990s to reassert itself internationally and drive growth along the Yangtze, Shanghai has erected elevated highways, glittering skyscrapers, and stately cultural venues. Graduates find jobs in finance; former bureaucrats sport well-cut suits; and young people pack flashing neon discos. Foreign investors are again flocking to the city. Dead to the world for over 40 years, Shanghai has been reborn. Interweaving anecdotes and analysis, this narrative addresses key aspects of the city's rebirth: the building spree of the 1990s; its resurrection as a financial centre; its drive to remain a manufacturing powerhouse; its cultural reawakening; the growing divide between rich and poor; the return of foreign business; and the revival of notorious Old Shanghai vices - nightlife, drugs, and prostitution. This is a wide-ranging coverage of the rebirth of Shanghai - the city at the centre of China's resurgence as an economic power; it paints pictures of Shanghai today to provide a better understanding of the Shanghai and China of tomorrow; and it includes extensive interviews with Shanghainese at all levels of society.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements; Introduction: The Allure of Shanghai; Building the New Shanghai; New York of Asia?; The Haves and the Have-Nots ; Search for a Soul; Return of the Vices; Return of the Foreigners; Made in Shanghai; Conclusion: Waiting for Shanghai.

About the Author :
Pamela Yatsko was the Far Eastern Economic Review's first Shanghai correspondent and bureau chief since the Chinese Communist Revolution in 1949. She lived in the city with her husband from 1995 to 1998 and continues to travel there frequently from their Hong Kong base. An American from Massachusetts, she received her Bachelor's Degree from Smith College in 1984 and her Master's Degree specializing in China Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in 1988. Before joining the Review in 1994, she was the Managing Editor of Hong Kong-based Business China, an Economist Group publication, worked as a freelance journalist in India, and wrote case studies focusing on global strategic alliances for Harvard Business School. She studied Mandarin in the 1980s in Taiwan and in Nanjing, China.


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  • ISBN-13: 9780471843528
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Rocky Rebirth of China's Legendary City
  • ISBN-10: 0471843520
  • Publisher Date: 04 Aug 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Returnable: N


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