Saturday in Shanghai

Christine, Francis and Greg explore old and new Shanghai
  • DSC05394 We set off on foot into the French Concession.
  • DSC05396 It does feel quite a bit like Paris.
  • DSC05397 First stop: Chou En Lai's house. He was a founder of the CCP,
  • DSC05398 but his house is very bourgeois, like one in an upscale New Jersey suburb!
  • DSC05401 Literally right next door is a high-end real estate development.
  • DSC05400 "Mansions" is the right word!
  • DSC05399 Does no one see the irony in this? Or is China post-ironic?
  • DSCN6453 On to Sun Yat-sen's house.
  • DSC05402 All the dark enamel paint reminded me of my grandfather Greenwood's house.
  • DSC05403 Sun Yat-sen is a minor deity here, co-opted entirely by the CCP. Francis and I visited his mausoleum in Nanjing yesterday.
  • DSC05404 On to Fuxing Park.
  • DSCN6454 An island of greenery...
  • DSC05409 in an ocean of city.
  • DSCN6455 Two photographers...
  • DSC05405 being witnesses to each other's lives.
  • DSC05406 In Fuxing, you read the newspapers, meet with friends...
  • DSC05407 promenade with your father...
  • DSCN6456 watch games...
  • DSCN6457 chat with family...
  • DSCN6458 play games yourself...
  • DSC05410 watch couples dancing...
  • DSC05412 dance a bit yourself...
  • DSC05413 Keep on dancing...
  • DSC05414 We leave the tranquility of Fuxing and head to...
  • DSC05415 Xintiandi, the tourist shopping district, open only to the rich!
  • DSC05417 It is thus proven that one can commercialize anything!
  • DSCN6461 Bigger and Better Zen!
  • DSCN6459 Back in the High Life again!
  • DSCN6460 Relaxing the ambiance of the Thirties in Shanghai while to the west The Long March begins.
  • DSCN6462 I am sure that the café life was the whole idea...
  • DSC05418 Where you pay a lot for an empty plate...
  • DSC05421 In a Taoist temple on the edge of the Old Town.
  • DSC05426 Diety N° 2
  • DSC05427 Lao Tzu himself??
  • DSC05428 The face of wisdom.
  • DSC05429 Golden dragons
  • DSC05430 The Outside Inside the Temple
  • DSC05432 Colliding rooflines
  • DSCN6463 Floating Cloud Temple and Anonymous High Rise
  • DSC05433 Shiny Fruit Store in Old Town
  • DSC05434 Bananas would be nice but no deal...
  • DSC05435 Tomatoes or persimmons?
  • DSC05436 Pudong Towers across the river.
  • DSC05437 Hamburger Temple
  • DSC05438 The New made to look Old: immense shopping mall
  • DSC05440 yet right next door, a Taoist Temple: Do Nothing with your money.
  • DSC05442 The Commercial Temple lights up.
  • DSC05441 Give me all your money or Thou Shalt Not Pass!