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  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi in Shanghai, China. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 075.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 084_corbis.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 084.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi in Shanghai, China. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 082_alamy.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi in Shanghai, China. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 085.jpg
  • Scooters and other passengers on foot disembark from one of Shanghai’s regular ferries which cross from Pudong to Xinmatou in Puxi in Shanghai, China. Here on the Puxi side the switch over of passengers is a frenetic scramble in keeping with the general way on Shanghai’s streets, which can feel like a fight to be first, big pushing in front of small to take top place.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 081_alamy.jpg
  • View looking from The Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 015.jpg
  • View looking from The Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 045.jpg
  • The Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong and the Bund waterfront in Puxi seen through heavy fog during a winter day in Shanghai, China on 04 February, 2009.  These landmarks situated on the oppostie sides of the Huangpu River represents different era in Shanghai's, and China's history. The historical architecture of the older banks, custom houses, and hotels near the Bund is a throw back to the early 20th century, when the city was made up of foreign concessions each with its own laws and police force. While the gleaming new towers of Pudong, to many Chinese, is a symbol of China's rise as a world power.
    QS090204Shanghai030.jpg
  • View looking from The Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 033.jpg
  • View looking from The Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi and Suzhou Creek in Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 016.jpg
  • Viewing deck of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 049_alamy.jpg
  • View looking from The Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 018.jpg
  • Viewing deck of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 046.jpg
  • View looking from The Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 027_alamy.jpg
  • Viewing deck of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 039.jpg
  • View looking from The Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 029.jpg
  • Viewing deck of the Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 047.jpg
  • View looking from The Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, across the Huang Pu River to Puxi Shanghai’s downtown area in Shanghai, China. The Bund’s western buildings lines the bottom of the view as modern Shanghai’s high-rise skyscraper filled landscape raises up behind.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 030.jpg
  • Tomorrow Square which also contains the Marriot hotel, stands on the edge of Peoples Square in downtown Shanghai, China. At 55 stories and 285 metres high, this is one of Shanghais giants, and if not really massive, certainly one of Shanghais finest skyscrapers. Designed by reknowned architect John Portman. The Shanghai Grand Theatre stands in the foreground, home to classical music, opera and dance in the city.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 014.jpg
  • Dogs for sale at a pet shop market in Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 154_alamy.jpg
  • Tourists have their photo taken in front of pictures of famous landmarks at the Oriental Pearl Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 060.jpg
  • Counterfeit DVDs for sale in Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 2 059.jpg
  • Mont Blanc shop in the heart of Shanghais exclusive shopping district in Shanghai, China. Many of the Worlds major brands have arrived in China, and in particularly Chinas money capital, Shanghai. This part of Nanjing Rd is where the citys rich and famous come to shop.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 1 027_alamy.jpg
  • Atrium of the Grand Hyatt hotel, Pudong. This view taken from the 85th floor of the Jin Mao Building looks at the top section of this amazing tower which is owned by the Hyatt hotel group. Looking down, the bottom floor in this view shows the bar area on the 55th floor. This interior has become famous as one of Shanghai's tourist attractions, with many people paying to see the view from the viewing deck on the 87th floor. The symmetry and repetition of floors and balconies is breathtaking and visually overloading at the same time.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 161_corbis.jpg
  • Overhead flyovers cross in this mega-junction of the Yan’an Road Central Elevated Expressway, and the Chongqing North/South Elevated Expressway. These huge motorway systems cut across and up through Shanghai creating fast routes for vehicles. The vast amounts of housing that was removed to make space for the Yan’an Expressway alone, displaced some 200,000 people, who will have been re-housed in high-rise apartment blocks in the suburbs. Their old homes would have been dwarfed by this monstrous construction of roads. Lit up at night this is a classic view of Shanghai’s futuristic approach to it’s massive and swift development.
    2005-07-14 shanghai 056.jpg
  • Female showroom dummies at a textiles shop in downtown Shanghai. This style of western dummy with sculpted hair, bright red lips and dark eye make up is common throughout the city, and can be seen all over China. This choice of western model interestingly reflects the desire for western looks and light skin common amongst Chinese women in particular.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 166.jpg
  • A man tries to convince gathered punters on Fang Bang Road (Fangbang Lu) that his electrical gizmo (a transformer based electrical power saving device) is something they must part with their money for. This is an area where anything can draw a crowd and make an argument ensue. Selling out of a suitcase the seller appeared jumpy as if a policeman were to come along he would close the case and run.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 105_corbis.jpg
  • The Oriental Pearl Tower (left) and Jin Mao Building (right) rise up, glowing in the distance in Pudong, Shanghai, and China’s centralised financial district. Skyline across the low-rise traditional Chinese housing in the foreground of Nanpudaqiao through the high-rise developments, offices and apartment buildings right across downtown, this vision of capitalism and modernity against traditional sums up the colossal development of this ‘Paris of the East’ as Shanghai was once known. In ten years the city has gone from 2-3 story housing as far as the eye can see to this rising metropolis. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 045_corbis.jpg
  • HSBC Bank sign in English and Chinese characters in Shanghai, China. HSBC is one of many western banks which have moved in to Chinas major cities, in particular, Shanghai.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 1 001_alamy.jpg
  • Figures from the Cultural revolution for sale at a stall on Dong Tai Road (Dongtai Lu) street market. This small area, dedicated to antiques is lined with shops and the streets covered with stalls selling artifacts from Shanghai's past. There are some genuine Chinese antiques which can be very expensive. But there are also a lot of fakes for sale too, like these figures. Usually snapped up by tourists who are under the impression they are getting a bargain.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 124_corbis.jpg
  • People lounge in the bar area on the 55th floor of the Jin Mao Building. The top section of this amazing tower is owned by the Grand Hyatt hotel up the 85th floor. This is one of Shanghai's premier hotels, and the bar area here is the base of the Hyatt's amazing atrium space.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 3 005_alamy.jpg
  • Chopped cooked meats and pickled vegetables served from a hatch painted in Chinese characters on Renmin Lu. This is a common sight on many streets.
    2005-06-30 shanghai 060_corbis.jpg
  • Street in amongst the traditional Chinese architecture of Yu Yuan Garden. This area draws a lot of tourists, both mainland and western to it’s tea, jade, and souvenir shops. Aside from the tourist shop trade this is an area where there is a specialist shopping area for almost anything, but in particular textiles of all kinds and the materials and threads and beads that can make them. Yu Yuan Garden is a protected area and one of the only places in the whole of Shanghai to see these traditional pitched roofs.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 124.jpg
  • People out shopping on Shanghais famous Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China. Famed for its many department stores, bright signs and bustling streets. Nanjing Lu is the main shopping street of Shanghai, China, and is one of the worlds busiest shopping streets. The street is named after the city of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu neighbouring Shanghai. Todays Nanjing Road comprises two sections, Nanjing Road East and Nanjing Road West.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 2 100.jpg
  • Plaza 66 shopping mall in Shanghai, China. Plaza 66 is a commercial and office complex in Shanghai, consisting of a shopping mall and two skyscrapers. The shopping mall has 5 levels with a total area of over 50,000 square metres.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 2 013.jpg
  • Figures from the Cultural revolution for sale at a stall on Dong Tai Road, Dongtai Lu, street market in Shanghai, China. This small area, dedicated to antiques is lined with shops and the streets covered with stalls selling artifacts from Shanghais past. There are some genuine Chinese antiques which can be very expensive. But there are also a lot of fakes for sale too, like these figures. Usually snapped up by tourists who are under the impression they are getting a bargain.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 130.jpg
  • Eight Buddhist monks in ochre yellow robes walk from their quarters to one of their daily prayer sessions at Longhua Temple in the south of Shanghai. This is a working temple where public come to burn incense, offer gifts and to eat. Located on Longhua Road, the temple was first built in 242 AD, during the period of the Three Kingdoms. Longhua Temple is the oldest temple in Shanghai and also the largest at 20,000 square metres including it’s grounds. Because of several destructions by the wars, most of the buildings in Longhua Temple were reconstructed during the reign of the Emperor Tongzhi and Guangxu during the Qing Dynasty.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 025_corbis.jpg
  • Buddhist monks in ochre yellow robes during one of their daily prayer sessions at Longhua Temple in the south of Shanghai, China. This is a working temple where public come to burn incense, offer gifts and to eat. Located on Longhua Road, the temple was first built in 242 AD, during the period of the Three Kingdoms. Longhua Temple is the oldest temple in Shanghai and also the largest at 20,000 square metres including it’s grounds. Because of several destructions by the wars, most of the buildings in Longhua Temple were reconstructed during the reign of the Emperor Tongzhi and Guangxu during the Qing Dynasty.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 033_alamy.jpg
  • Bar area on the 55th floor in the atrium of the Grand Hyatt hotel inside the Jin Mao Building, Pudong in Shanghai, China. This interior has become famous as one of Shanghais tourist attractions, with many people paying to see the view from the viewing deck on the 87th floor. The symmetry and repetition of floors and balconies is breathtaking and visually overloading at the same time.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 170.jpg
  • Atrium of the Grand Hyatt hotel inside the Jin Mao Building, Pudong in Shanghai, China. This view taken from the 85th floor of the Jin Mao Building looks at the top section of this amazing tower which is owned by the Hyatt hotel group. Looking down, the bottom floor in this view shows the bar area on the 55th floor. This interior has become famous as one of Shanghais tourist attractions, with many people paying to see the view from the viewing deck on the 87th floor. The symmetry and repetition of floors and balconies is breathtaking and visually overloading at the same time.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 145.jpg
  • Atrium of the Grand Hyatt hotel inside the Jin Mao Building, Pudong in Shanghai, China. This view taken from the 85th floor of the Jin Mao Building looks at the top section of this amazing tower which is owned by the Hyatt hotel group. Looking down, the bottom floor in this view shows the bar area on the 55th floor. This interior has become famous as one of Shanghais tourist attractions, with many people paying to see the view from the viewing deck on the 87th floor. The symmetry and repetition of floors and balconies is breathtaking and visually overloading at the same time.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 144_alamy.jpg
  • Businessmen cross the street walking towards Pudongs main financial district Lu Jia Zui, Pudong in Shanghai, China. This centre for Shanghai, and even Chinas finances has developed from nothing since the mid to late 1990s. Now it is a place to see businessmen in crisp white shirts and suits, carrying brief cases.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 104.jpg
  • Shanghais old flower market off Rejin Lu, in Shanghai, China. This excellent flower market which sells fresh flowers on the ground floor and fake flowers upstairs is situated in an old communist party building. Sellers and arrangers work through the heat and cold in this exposed building, moving flowers at unbelievably low prices compared to this trade in the West.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 030.jpg
  • Jazz band plays at JZ Club on Fuxing Lu in Shanghai, China. Following the popularity of other jazz and blues clubs in Shanghai, Like the popular and nearby Cotton Club, J Z Club is as busy as it can be on the main nights of th week, full of Shanghainese and ex-pat customers, this is just one venue which makes up Shanghais flourishing bar scene.
    2005-06-29 shanghai 059.jpg
  • A group of retirees dressed as Uighurs, a muslim minority in China's western Xingjiang territory, puts up a dancing show at Fuxin Park in downtown Shanghai, China on 15 March, 2009. The park is popular place for pensioners.
    QS090315Shanghai009.jpg
  • KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken staff at a restaurant on Huai Hai Road and Shaanxi Road in Shanghai’s downtown shopping district in Shanghai, China. Western fast food is popular amongst the young as are many western influences on this society that has changed dramatically since the late 1990’s, embracing western culture, fashion, food and attitudes. These restaurants are always full, despite being more expensive than fast Chinese food. There are many overweight youngsters in Shanghai, something of a recent characteristic as dietary changes result in a generally larger generation.
    2005-07-14 shanghai 026_alamy.jpg
  • Men playing cards at a pet shop market in Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 141.jpg
  • Street scene with the busy streets below and overhead cables above in Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 092.jpg
  • Electric fans for sale at a shop in Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 097.jpg
  • People in a Chinese restaurant interior in Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 062.jpg
  • The Oriental Pearl Tower (left) and Jin Mao Building (right) rise up, glowing in the distance in Pudong, Shanghai, and China’s centralised financial district. Skyline across the low-rise traditional Chinese housing in the foreground of Nanpudaqiao through the high-rise developments, offices and apartment buildings right across downtown, this vision of capitalism and modernity against traditional sums up the colossal development of this ‘Paris of the East’ as Shanghai was once known. In ten years the city has gone from 2-3 story housing as far as the eye can see to this rising metropolis. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 046_corbis.jpg
  • Plaza 66 shopping mall in Shanghai, China. Plaza 66 is a commercial and office complex in Shanghai, consisting of a shopping mall and two skyscrapers. The shopping mall has 5 levels with a total area of over 50,000 square metres.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 2 023.jpg
  • Gucci shop in the heart of Shanghais exclusive shopping district in Shanghai, China. Many of the Worlds major brands have arrived in China, and in particularly Chinas money capital, Shanghai. This part of Nanjing Rd is where the citys rich and famous come to shop.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 1 036_alamy.jpg
  • Fake snow on the street on  a hot day as Kirin drinks company has a promotional drive on the streets of Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 1 019.jpg
  • Marble, carved chops for sale in the indoor antique market in Yu Yuan Garden, downtown Shanghai, China. The pots and ceramics being sold by this family business on the top floor of the market are not genuine antiques. Many are fakes, which are sold to the more gullible tourists. Genuine antiques can be bought but the prices reflect their age considerably.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 075_alamy.jpg
  • Buddhist monks in ochre yellow robes during one of their daily prayer sessions at Longhua Temple in the south of Shanghai, China. This is a working temple where public come to burn incense, offer gifts and to eat. Located on Longhua Road, the temple was first built in 242 AD, during the period of the Three Kingdoms. Longhua Temple is the oldest temple in Shanghai and also the largest at 20,000 square metres including it’s grounds. Because of several destructions by the wars, most of the buildings in Longhua Temple were reconstructed during the reign of the Emperor Tongzhi and Guangxu during the Qing Dynasty.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 036_alamy.jpg
  • Two businessmen cross the street walking towards Pudong's main financial district Lu Jia Zui. This centre for Shanghai, and even China's finances has developed from nothing since the mid to late 1990's. Now it is a place to see businessmen in crisp white shirts and suits, carrying brief cases.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 109_alamy.jpg
  • Workers sleeping at Shanghais old flower market off Rejin Lu, in Shanghai, China. This excellent flower market which sells fresh flowers on the ground floor and fake flowers upstairs is situated in an old communist party building. Sellers and arrangers work through the heat and cold in this exposed building, moving flowers at unbelievably low prices compared to this trade in the West.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 018.jpg
  • Small squid on a stainless steel board in a wet market on Renmin Lu in Shanghai, China. These amazing markets sell anything from fish to meat, vegetables, to live poultry. Tucked away all over the city these wet markets are where most Shanghainese do their food shopping.
    2005-06-30 shanghai 091.jpg
  • The BundMorning exercisers practices Taichi in a square on the bund, with the colonial-era bank and hotel buildings as the backdrop in Shanghai, China on 13 October 2013. The Bund, along with the contrast of the modern skyline across the Huangpu River in Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District, is one of the most iconic tourist destination in China and possibly the world.
    QS131030Shanghai001_1_1.jpg
  • With the skyscrapers of Pudong's Lujiazui Financial District in the background, a scaffolding surrounds the Revolutionary Martyrs Monument, part of the historical riverside Bund renovation project in Shanghai, China on 27 May 2009.  60 years ago today residents of Shanghai woke up to find communist soldiers sleeping on the streets as the People's Liberation Army drove away the defending Nationalists after 15 days of intense fighting using only light weaponry to minimize collateral damage.
    QS090527Shanghai001.jpg
  • Overhead flyovers cross in this mega-junction of the Yan’an Road Central Elevated Expressway, and the Chongqing North/South Elevated Expressway in Shanghai, China. These huge motorway systems cut across and up through Shanghai creating fast routes for vehicles. The vast amounts of housing that was removed to make space for the Yan’an Expressway alone, displaced some 200,000 people, who will have been re-housed in high-rise apartment blocks in the suburbs. Their old homes would have been dwarfed by this monstrous construction of roads. Lit up at night this is a classic view of Shanghai’s futuristic approach to it’s massive and swift development.
    2005-07-14 shanghai 074_alamy.jpg
  • The Jin Mao Building take pride of place in Pudong, Shanghai’s financial district from the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China. The are is currently dominated here by the Lu Jia Zui buildings, but reaching way above at 88 stories and 425m is the beautiful Jin Mao Building. Housing offices, residents and the Grand Hyatt Hotel, the Jin Mao will be beaten into second place in Shanghai by a new building whose footprint is already being prepared bottom right. Much of Pudong’s high rise residential housing fills the background showing the distance to which Shanghai spreads.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 022_alamy.jpg
  • People in a Chinese restaurant interior in Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 063.jpg
  • Giant neon rooftop sign spells out the electronics company name ‘Sharp’. Situated on the 30th floor rooftop on a building rear to Nanpu Bridge in Nanpudaqiao, this old sign is one of Shanghai’s icons, and can be seen when crossing the bridge. Below the highway traffic roars through high-rise residential developments which rise up to take their part of the skyline. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 057_corbis.jpg
  • Street scene with the busy streets below and overhead cables above in Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-04 shanghai 2 008.jpg
  • Bicycle traffic on Shanghais famous Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China. Famed for its many department stores, bright signs and bustling streets. Nanjing Lu is the main shopping street of Shanghai, China, and is one of the worlds busiest shopping streets. The street is named after the city of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu neighbouring Shanghai. Todays Nanjing Road comprises two sections, Nanjing Road East and Nanjing Road West.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 2 082.jpg
  • Woman walks past a piece of public art depicting a cut out in pink of Shanghainese people on Nanjing Road.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 2 054.jpg
  • McDonalds sign in Chinese and English text in Shanghai, China. There are hundreds of fast food stores throughout Shanghai as Chinas hunger for western food increases.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 2 031.jpg
  • Fake snow on the street on  a hot day as Kirin drinks company has a promotional drive on the streets of Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 1 020.jpg
  • Fake snow on the street on  a hot day as Kirin drinks company has a promotional drive on the streets of Shanghai, China.
    2005-07-03 nanjing lu 1 018.jpg
  • Traffic waits at traffic lights at the junction of Jia Jiao Bang Lu and Wanping Lu, Shanghai, China. In addition to the buses, taxis and transport vehicles on Shanghais busy streets, personal car use is increasing. The result is a city with very polluted air, and streets full of cars.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 131.jpg
  • Stall selling Mao staues in the indoor antique market in Yu Yuan Garden, downtown Shanghai. The pots and ceramics being sold by this family business on the top floor of the market are not genuine antiques. Many are fakes, which are sold to the more gullible tourists. Genuine antiques can be bought but the prices reflect their age considerably.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 094.jpg
  • Marble, carved chops for sale in the indoor antique market in Yu Yuan Garden, downtown Shanghai, China. The pots and ceramics being sold by this family business on the top floor of the market are not genuine antiques. Many are fakes, which are sold to the more gullible tourists. Genuine antiques can be bought but the prices reflect their age considerably.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 077_alamy.jpg
  • Incense teapot offering during daily prayer sessions at the Longhua Temple in the south of Shanghai, China. This is a working Buddhist temple where public come to burn incense, offer gifts and to eat. Located on Longhua Road, the temple was first built in 242 AD, during the period of the Three Kingdoms. Longhua Temple is the oldest temple in Shanghai and also the largest at 20,000 square metres including it’s grounds. Because of several destructions by the wars, most of the buildings in Longhua Temple were reconstructed during the reign of the Emperor Tongzhi and Guangxu during the Qing Dynasty.
    2005-07-02 shanghai 035_alamy.jpg
  • Shanghai Urban Planning Museum in Peoples Square, downtown Shanghai, China. People hang out by one of the citys distinctive modern buildings. The museum houses a giant scale model of Shanghai. This model shows to exact detail the development of the city, and what is yet to be built also.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 031_corbis.jpg
  • Atrium of the Grand Hyatt hotel, Pudong. This view taken from the 85th floor of the Jin Mao Building looks at the top section of this amazing tower which is owned by the Hyatt hotel group. Looking down, the bottom floor in this view shows the bar area on the 55th floor. This interior has become famous as one of Shanghai's tourist attractions, with many people paying to see the view from the viewing deck on the 87th floor. The symmetry and repetition of floors and balconies is breathtaking and visually overloading at the same time.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 137_corbis.jpg
  • Atrium of the Grand Hyatt hotel inside the Jin Mao Building, Pudong in Shanghai, China. This view taken from the 85th floor of the Jin Mao Building looks at the top section of this amazing tower which is owned by the Hyatt hotel group. Looking down, the bottom floor in this view shows the bar area on the 55th floor. This interior has become famous as one of Shanghais tourist attractions, with many people paying to see the view from the viewing deck on the 87th floor. The symmetry and repetition of floors and balconies is breathtaking and visually overloading at the same time.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 152.jpg
  • Workers sit in the shade at lunchtime in front of Coca Cola advertising in Shanghai's popular Xiang Yang Fashion Market. It is possible to see from their older style clothes that they are either poor Shanghainese, or migrants from outside Shanghai. The advertising and these people shows the stark contrasts between old China and western modern China, and the gap between rich and poor.
    2005-07-01 shanghai 2 051.jpg
  • Tourists on the Bund at sunset look out over the cityscape and skyline of Pudong Financial District over Huang Pu River in Shanghai, China. Every day at sundown, tourists gather to watch the sun go down and the lights all along the Huang Pu River come to life.
    2005-06-30 shanghai 147.jpg
  • Fruit for sale in Shanghai, China.
    2005-06-30 shanghai 100.jpg
  • Small squid on a stainless steel board in a wet market on Renmin Lu in Shanghai, China. These amazing markets sell anything from fish to meat, vegetables, to live poultry. Tucked away all over the city these wet markets are where most Shanghainese do their food shopping.
    2005-06-30 shanghai 090_alamy.jpg
  • Local notices blackboard in Shanghai, China.
    2005-06-30 shanghai 016_alamy.jpg
  • Children come out and play at a park in Shanghai, China on 27 July 2009.  As China's largest city age rapidly, city family planning officials have begun to actively encourage young couples who are themselves both only child to have two kids. First implemented in 1979, the one-child policy has lessened an estimated 400 million fewer births in China.
    QS090727Shanghai015.jpg
  • A group of retirees dressed as Uighurs, a muslim minority in China's western Xingjiang territory, puts up a dancing show at Fuxin Park in downtown Shanghai, China on 15 March, 2009. The park is popular place for pensioners.
    QS090315Shanghai010.jpg
  • A man carries live chickens on the back of his bicycle at a wet market in Shanghai, China on 19 January, 2009. Chinese authorities said a second person this year has died from the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country's Shandong Province, the news came during the most dangerous time of the year for the avian flu as the country's poultry consumption looks to spike during the traditional Chinese New Year holidays.
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  • Crickets for sale in miniature baskets at a pet shop market in Shanghai, China.
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  • Birds for sale at a pet shop market in Shanghai, China.
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  • Fish for sale at a pet shop market in Shanghai, China.
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  • Brightly coloured drinks in Shanghai, China.
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  • The Jin Mao Building looms up behind construction of new high rise apartment buildings in Pudong, Shanghai, China.
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  • The Jin Mao Building looms up behind construction of new high rise apartment buildings in Pudong, Shanghai, China.
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  • Security CCTV camera at the base of the Oriental Pearl Tower with the Jin Mao Building behind in Shanghai, China.
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  • Giant neon rooftop sign spells out the Chinese character name for the electronics company ‘Sharp’. Situated on the 30th floor rooftop on a building rear to Nanpu Bridge in Nanpudaqiao, this old sign is one of Shanghai’s icons, and can be seen when crossing the bridge. In the distance high-rise residential developments in Pudong rise up to take their part of the skyline. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.
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  • The Oriental Pearl Tower left and Jin Mao Building right rise up, glowing in the distance in Pudong, and China’s centralised financial district in Shanghai, China. Skyline across the low-rise traditional Chinese housing in the foreground of Nanpudaqiao through the high-rise developments, offices and apartment buildings right across downtown, this vision of capitalism and modernity against traditional sums up the colossal development of this ‘Paris of the East’ as Shanghai was once known. In ten years the city has gone from 2-3 story housing as far as the eye can see to this rising metropolis. So much air pollution and light pollution from buildings, construction, cars and lighting up makes the whole city glow.
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  • Street scene with the busy streets below and overhead cables above in Shanghai, China.
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  • Starbucks Coffee sign in Chinese and English text in Shanghai, China. There are hundreds of fast food stores throughout Shanghai as Chinas hunger for western food increases.
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  • People out shopping on Shanghais famous Nanjing Road in Shanghai, China. Famed for its many department stores, bright signs and bustling streets. Nanjing Lu is the main shopping street of Shanghai, China, and is one of the worlds busiest shopping streets. The street is named after the city of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu neighbouring Shanghai. Todays Nanjing Road comprises two sections, Nanjing Road East and Nanjing Road West.
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  • 7up drink sign in Chinese text in Shanghai, China. There are hundreds of fast food stores throughout Shanghai as Chinas hunger for western food increases.
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