Shanghai Surprise: New Overtakes Old as a Photographer Revisits China's Second Largest City

We couldn’t decide what impressed us most about Shanghai when my wife and I first visited in 2001. Was it the obvious energy of the city? Or was it the contrast between old and new?Our tour guides -- lifelong friends who were living in Shanghai -- showed us everything from the city’s gleaming new skyscrapers to its centuries-old gardens and tea houses.  Continue reading...