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基本信息
·出版社：Lonely Planet Publications
·页码：258 页码
·出版日：2004年
·ISBN：1740593081
·条码：9781740593083
·版次：2004-03-01
·装帧：平装
·开本：32开 32开
内容简介
In the space of a decade, Shanghai has re-emerged as one of the world's great cities. Highrollers, trendsetters and travellers alike are drawn to this dynamic and cosmopolitan metropolis. Shop, promenade and explore by day, and hit chic bars and world-class restaurants at night -- you'll be spoilt for choice. This smart, streetwise and stylish guide will ensure you get the most out of 'new' Shanghai.
Shanghai fuses the faded glamour of its colonial past with China's dreams for the future. It's the world's fastest-changing city: blink and it's different. Use this definitive guide to keep up with the frenetic pace.
■special sections: Shanghai's diverse architecture, from Art Deco to 21st-century, and the magnificent Bund
■excursions to Hangzhou, Suzhou, Putuoshan and other sites around Shanghai
■the latest word on the rebirth of Shanghai nightlife - from the best bars to where to dance the tango
■eat your heat out: Shanghai's famous snack food and world-class restaurants
■walking tours that bring the city's colourful past alive
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In the space of a decade, Shanghai has re-emerged as one of the world's great cities. Highrollers, trendsetters and travellers alike are drawn to this dynamic and cosmopolitan metropolis. Shop, promenade and explore by day, and hit chic bars and world-class restaurants at night -- you'll be spoilt for choice. This smart, streetwise and stylish guide will ensure you get the most out of 'new' Shanghai.
目录
Introducing Shanghai
City Life
Arts & Architecture
Food & Drink
History
Neighbourhoods
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文摘
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Introducing Shanghai
Whore of the Orient and Paris of the East; city of quick riches, ill-gotten gains and fortunes lost; the domain of socialites and swindlers, adventurers and drug runners, missionaries, gangsters and pimps, all owing more to Marlene Dietrich than Mao Zedong - Shanghai has a history so impregnated with myth that it's hard to decide whether it was once a paradise or an all-encompassing evil.
The foreign powers crashed the party in 1842 and in less than 100 years, Shanghai had swelled beyond its sensibilities and was cut short just as quickly by the communist revolution. It is this short century of Shanghai's history that makes the city so appealing and appalling, and that has left monuments like bones to ponder over.
For Shanghai put away its dancing shoes in 1949 and the masses began shuffling to a different tune - the dour strains of Marxist-Leninism and the wail of the factory siren. All through these years of oblivion, the architects of this social experiment firmly wedged one foot against the door on Shanghai's past, until the effort started to tell. Regarded with suspicion by the communists as a hotbed of Western imperialist influence, the city has for decaded played second fiddle to Beijing.
Today the giant city of Shanghai has reawakened and the government is catching up at a breathtaking pace, pouring millions into the Pudong economic zone and creating a glass-and-steel skyline that rivals the Bund in a face-off between past and future. Shanghai is the world's largest construction site, evolving at a pace so unmatched by any other Chinese city that even the morning ritual of flinging open one's hotel curtains reveals new facets to the skyline. Catch the city's historical charms while you still can - slabs of old Shanghai are vanishing almost overnight.
As the past is levelled, the future, it seems, is already here. The world's
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