China: 'The other side of Shanghai's success story: 'Corrupt, pleasure-mad, squalor-ridden'. This description of Shanghai was written in the 1930s. But as Jasper Becker reports, China's economic boom has resurrected old problems in its second city.' (Independent)
Wednesday, August 11, 2004
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