1. Easy Rider
Easy Rider Shanghai-style, a motorbike-taxi driver awaits customers in parked comfort.2. Misty City
Classic Shanghai scene: Misty drizzle lends a lustrous sheen to the neon lights and colonial facades of Nanjing Road, one of the world’s busiest shopping streets.3. Longhua Temple
Locals burn incense at Longhua Buddhist temple, Shanghai’s largest and most complete, offering homage to their ancestors, the gods, or sending a wish to heaven.4. Acrobats
Young acrobats perform at the Shanghai Centre Theatre, on Nanjing Road West, one of the many performing venues in the city.5. Development
Fragile artifact, a decades-old apartment building defies—for now—the inexorable development that is transforming today’s go-go-go Shanghai.
Fragile artifact, a decades-old apartment building defies—for now—the inexorable development that is transforming today’s go-go-go Shanghai.6. Ice-Cream Parlor
The galvanic energy of Shanghai’s Nanjing Road lights up the windows of an ice-cream parlor, itself a fairly new phenomenon in this land where dairy foods aren’t traditional fare.
The galvanic energy of Shanghai’s Nanjing Road lights up the windows of an ice-cream parlor, itself a fairly new phenomenon in this land where dairy foods aren’t traditional fare.7. Dance Club
Not their fathers’ China: Young Shanghainese move to the rhythm of the night in one of the edgy new dance clubs that pepper 21st-century Shanghai.
Not their fathers’ China: Young Shanghainese move to the rhythm of the night in one of the edgy new dance clubs that pepper 21st-century Shanghai.8. Migrant Workers
A mural of pastoral woodland gives migrant workers from China’s countrysides a touch of home at a Shanghai construction site.
9.Advertising on the River
Advertising takes to the Huangpo River in buy-buy Shanghai, where boats outfitted with large screens float out product pitches along the Bund.
A mural of pastoral woodland gives migrant workers from China’s countrysides a touch of home at a Shanghai construction site.9.Advertising on the River
Advertising takes to the Huangpo River in buy-buy Shanghai, where boats outfitted with large screens float out product pitches along the Bund.10.Art Gallery
A scene straight out of New York finds a wine server making the rounds at an art-gallery opening along Shanghai’s fashionable Bund.
A scene straight out of New York finds a wine server making the rounds at an art-gallery opening along Shanghai’s fashionable Bund. 
