Since I've been here in Shanghai almost a month now, I've been taking fewer and fewer pictures. The other night I went out with my Chinese Cultures teacher and we went downtown on the subway, to eat, and to see the Bund and Nanjing road at night. So you will see a few night pictures here.
My instructor is Chinese and she teaches at California Polytechnic. She says that "foreign" Chinese, are given no respect in Shanghai. We were downtown and could not find the restaurant street we were looking for, so we saw this group of three Chinese looking people, who were walking westward, and she asked me to ask them for directions. She felt she wouldn't get any cooperation, even though she could speak Chinese. I stopped them, and it turned out they could speak English, and last night they were on the restaurant street we were looking for. They not only gave us directions, but turned around and walked us there. My instructor swears it was because I was a westerner. She said they would have never done this for a Chinese person. At the end of our walk we stopped in the Peace Hotel. This is a very fancy hotel, like the Willard in Washington. Built in 1929 by Sir Victor Sasoon. They have a jazz club there that has been playing since the 1930's. We looked around then left.
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| Nanging Street at night. A pedestrian only street |
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| Another photo of Nanjing Street at night |
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| View from the Bund of Pudong. All the buildings are lit up, and there are many cruise boats at night |
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| View of some of the older buildings on the Bund |
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| In the Peace Hotel, part of the lobby. There were women there playing strings when we walked in. |
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