The Pearl tower is seen from the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Centre at Pudong financial district in Shanghai. The Shanghai World Financial Centre will have 101 floors when completed in 2008.
(Nir Elias via Reuters)
H.D.S. Greenway
In China, better rich than red
The Pearl tower is seen from the 94th floor of the Shanghai World Financial Centre at Pudong financial district in Shanghai. The Shanghai World Financial Centre will have 101 floors when completed in 2008.
(Nir Elias via Reuters)
THE VIEW across the river at the skyscrapers of Pudong, where only muddy fields had existed 20 years ago, or the sight of jolly crowds of Chinese tourists carousing in the impossibly quaint streets of Lijiang in the hills of Yunnan, called to mind the once-startlingly revolutionary slogan that changed China: "It doesn't matter the color of the cat ... (Full article: 747 words)
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