Word: bunds
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...SHANGHAI Mr. Wang, who asks not to use his first name, wandered along Shanghai's historic Bund the other day. Perfectly normal, yes, except he wasn't wearing a thing?and nobody was paying attention. That everyone ignored him infuriated Mr. Wang, for he was one of China's fledgling crop of performance artists. What's the point of performing if no one watches...
VIEW FINDER The breathtaking views from the 88-story Jinmao Tower encompass the historic river-front Bund with its 1920 buildings and Pudong's Blade Runner surrealism. Enjoy a drink at Cloud 9, the bar at the Shanghai Grand Hyatt atop the Jinmao. Jinmao Da-sha, 2 Shiji Avenue, Pudong...
...White Russians arrived first. The disintegration of their homeland forced many to flee to Harbin, in northern China, and then on to Shanghai. Some, such as Admiral Stark and his sailors, took their battle fleets, sailed south and parked themselves opposite the Bund, commanding attention by their numbers and the size of their guns...
...Conte Verge in late 1933. Facing terrible persecution back home, the Jews of Central Europe were prepared to look to any port in a storm and Shanghai was one of the very few available. What must have gone through their minds as they arrived on the Bund and confronted Shanghai's sweaty summers and teeming waterfront can only be guessed at, but they did have one central advantage; Jewish ?migr?s had been trickling in for years and there were many hands of friendship...
...Press; 479 pages) sinks readers into the sullied lives of China's colonial nabobs, leading us through the brothels, country clubs, crime labs, opium dens and dance halls of 1920s Shanghai?where "you can get heroin on room service in all the best hotels" and every building along the Bund is "a projection of American or European power...