Many aren t as confident. As a student in Nanjing in 1983, she recalls runs to Shanghai to buy Nescafe. But great cities aren t distinguished by how many cappuccino stalls they have. It s by a multitude of influences, bookstores, and freedoms and free thinking. It s the newspaper you read with your coffee.
Critics say they won t taste many benefits of the new Shanghai.
He has no indoor plumbing. But this is my home, my friends. I don t want to move to a new place. Still, others in old blocks being crowded by glass towers and cybermalls grumble but agree that the new Shanghai is vastly improved from the past. The great irony is that Shanghai wants to become an international city again.