Word: hengshan
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...glam in spades. You can sip your Cosmopolitan on the Bund while gazing out at a relentlessly rising skyline. You can wander along the leafy boulevards of the former French Concession, pausing for a soy latte or a therapeutic browse in one of the fancy clothes shops on Hengshan Road. But now you can do art, too. Springing up amid the gleaming, dreaming towers are studios and galleries, large and small, testifying to the fact that where money grows, culture follows. Here are some of our favorites...
Thus rejuvenated, head west for 10 minutes in a taxi for a bite to eat at Le Garcon Chinois (Lane 9 off Hengshan Road). Its Chinese-French menu offers dishes like spicy duck-breast salad. Or head back on Lane 9 toward Yang's Kitchen for traditional Shanghai dishes like braised meatballs and drunken chicken. End your day with a drink at M on the Bund, a sumptuous bar and Mediterranean eatery on the Huangpu River. From the seventh-floor balcony overlooking the splendid stretch of Old World colonial trading houses, you can look across at the gleaming, futuristic towers...
...those four weeks the Japs had snatched back miles of the railroad from Chinese guerrillas and regular troops, had swept westward to buttress their holdings against attack. They had driven south through ruined Changsha, contested for the fourth time in five years. They marched on through quiet little Hengshan, near the five sacred Buddhist mountains. This week they pierced the outer gates of a vital rail junction, Hengyang-most important city sought by the Japanese since Canton and Hankow...
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