City of Chinese Immigrants

7/23/2013 - Shanghai, China

Shanghai, our tour guide informed us, is "only two hundred years old." That's young compared to Beijing, Xi'an, and Suzhou (the last two well over 1000 years old). Our tour guide compared Shanghai to New York: "everyone who lives in Shanghai is from somewhere else." He meant they are from other parts of China. 

We walked through the market, we ate, we saw Chinese acrobats, and we went out for karaoke. It was only a brief taste of Shanghai, but I enjoyed it. I felt it was an exciting city looking to mature its identity.

Pictured: View of a new skyscraper from the market.