I walked the streets of the megacity Shanghai for 2 weeks in a very cold January in 2008.
When people asked me what Shanghai feels like, I couldn’t tell, unlike many other cities I have travelled to.
Maybe I couldn’t find its soul. Only one thought remains – it was icy. Maybe that’s why…
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A January in Shanghai
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