This vendor took a different approach.

The Peace Hotel, the tallest building in Shanghai until 1985

The Bund, Europe's corporate groundhold in China. These buildings now hold foreign trade centers, banks, and custom houses.

The Pudong..."socialism with Chinese characteristics"

Huangpu River

On the other side of the waterway is new Shanghai (the Pudong)

Bob and the Pearl Tower

Globalization

School group at the Bund

A symbol of Chinese economic reform

Sightseeing boat on the waterfront

This street was filled with Pepsi signs.

We visited the Peace Hotel, a hotel built in 1926 on the Bund. The gift shop specialized in "official" Beijing 2008 Olympic gear. (Noel Coward wrote "Private Lives" here.) It was the China headquarters for the empire of wealthy businessman, Victor Sassoon.

Tangles of electric wires

Scaffolding made of bamboo