ON a cool autumn night, Shanghai is drenched in light. Billboards are flashing, highway lights are pulsing, and tall buildings seem to have been converted into giant television screens. Chinas showcase city appears to be showing off, decorating...
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ON a cool autumn night, Shanghai is drenched in light. Billboards are flashing, highway lights are pulsing, and tall buildings seem to have been converted into giant television screens. Chinas showcase city appears to be showing off, decorating itself as though its Asias Las Vegas. This is Chinas financial capital, its fashion center and, clearly, its coolest metropolis. Be prepared for a city on steroids, and one banking on long-term hyper-growth. In a country increasingly populated by grimy, characterless cities, Shanghai is also far and away Chinas most attractive city, particularly after nightfall. See less 
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The most spectacular view of Shanghai can be seen at night from the Bund, a historic waterfront area that sits on the west bank of the Huangpu River. Hulking stone structures built in the 1920s and 30s by the colonial powers that once dominated this city have been handsomely renovated...
