Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pity." The London that impressed him in 1819 as a metropolitan inferno had just over 1 million inhabitants, hardly more than today's Bronx. Yet though London has swollen tenfold since then, it has been overtaken by still faster-growing hells: not only Mexico City but Cairo, Calcutta, Shanghai and others. By the end of the century, according to the U.N., at least 22 cities will have populations of more than 10 million, and 60 will have more than 5 million...
...Shanghai: Standing Room Only
...Shanghai (pop. 11.9 million) was once the wildest seaport in the world, but the Communists outlawed all its traditional sins when they captured it in 1949. About 30,000 prostitutes were shipped off to rehabilitation centers to learn another profession, and thousands of opium addicts were detoxified and put to work. At the same time, however, much of the reformed city's commercial life also withered. Only in the past few years has Shanghai regained the right to launch private busi nesses, attract foreign investments and keep some of the profits. The physical city is much the same...
...housing shortage has become the main problem that hinders development in Shanghai," says the city's Communist Party chief, Chen Guodong. The authorities say that they built 4.2 million sq. yds. of new housing last year and moved 68,000 families into new homes...
...visiting professor of geography from the University of British Columbia. "Dumping of raw sewage goes on, as well as dumping of industrial wastes into the Huangpu River. If you fly here during the daytime you see three levels of the color of the water. The closer you get to Shanghai, the blacker the water gets...