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...taught the Chinese cast how to use their hips and added a few Bollywood dancers to round out the action. Two of Asia's best cinematographers?Peter Pau and Christopher Doyle?split time behind the camera, and each creates distinct visuals. Pau shoots the baroque hotels and classic Bund streets of Shanghai with a warm and romantic eye, all burnished greens, blues and browns. Doyle, Wong Kar-wai's longtime collaborator, gives Sun and Lin's flashbacks a gray, wintry look, as if we're peering through a window on which memory has accumulated like ice. The melodies...
Among the photographs in James Whitlow Delano's book Empire: Impressions from China, is an image of plainly dressed Chinese on Shanghai's Bund gazing across the river at the buildings in Pudong. We can't see the people's faces, but their posture suggests they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they...
...CUPOLA, Shanghai Want a taste of the new China? It doesn't come any richer than that served at the Cupola, tel: (86-21) 6329 1101, a private dining room atop Shanghai's iconic Three On the Bund building, with sweeping vistas of the Pudong business district...
...foam), elegantly simple décor and beautiful Central Park views. THE CUPOLA, Shanghai Want a taste of the new China? It doesn't come any richer than that served at the Cupola, tel: (86-21) 6329 1101, a private dining room atop Shanghai's iconic Three On the Bund building, with sweeping vistas of the Pudong business district. LE CIEL DE PARIS, Paris Claiming to be Europe's highest restaurant, Le Ciel de Paris, tel: (33-1) 4064 7764, is on the 56th floor of the Montparnasse Tower and 209 m above the city center. Gaze at the Eiffel...
...skylines could talk, Shanghai's would echo that judgment. While Peking and Canton boast modern hotels and office towers, Shanghai looks frozen in time, a black-and-white photograph from the 1930s. The buildings along the Bund that housed the great British trading firms and banks before the 1949 Communist take-over still stand, but now they are sooty and decrepit, ghosts from another...