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Shanghai
Shanghai
Simultaneously the most hated and the most loved city in the country, Shanghai is the Economic heart of China, could it ever be described as having a heart. Shanghai is the denizen of China's most exploitative nationals and foreign 'friends', and the locals are infamous in their arrogance towards the rest of the entire Chinese people: yet there is a genuine Shanghai culture there to be appreciated if you're looking for it.

It's simply too big and there are too many people for it to be all bad, and a midnight stroll along the bund, if you can pick a night when the hawkers will leave you alone, is an experience to be treasured. Any knowledge of history, however, will reveal Shanghai to be the progeny of old corruption, which casts its legacy as the goliath of Chinese business in dubious light.
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