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Lights, Culture, Action
Shanghai is back as an international city of mystery, but just how much of
its rejuvenated mystique is fake?
By RON GLUCKMAN and CRYSTYL MO
Balanced on a barstool inside his chic
restaurant near Fuxing Park, Shanghai native
Tony Zhang sips a glass of mineral water and
explains why he returned to the city of his birth
after spending most of his adult life in the U.S.
"The changes are amazing," he says, marveling
at the renaissance that is transforming this
Chinese metropolis of 13.1 million. "I've been
back six years and there has been no letup." Art
galleries, theaters and museums disused
relics from Shanghai's storied past have been
restored to opulence and are playing to crowds.
A few blocks away from the restaurant is the
luxurious Ruijin Guesthouse, once Cold War
quarters for visiting dignitaries such as
Indonesian strongman Suharto and ex-president
Ho Chi Minh of Vietnam. Now facilities are
rented for elegant weddings held daily on the
lawns. Zhang himself is partner in a trio of
fashionable establishments California Club, a
disco, and the Baci and Tokio Joe restaurants
as well as an online magazine,
ChinaNow.com. Across the Huangpu River, the
skyscrapers of the Pudong special development
zone rise like an information-age Crystal City.
"The hardware is all there," says Zhang as he
takes another drag of Perrier and considers
Shanghai, circa 2001. "Now, this city is putting
in the software."
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