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	7DAYS » Enjoying a Shanghai surprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Standing on the banks of the Huangpu River which divides the city in two, surrounded by sophisticated skyscrapers on one side and Renaissance-era mansions on the other, it’s difficult to imagine you are in China.
		Shanghai is a cosmopolitan city buzzing with life and offering tourists an altogether different experience.
		In Shanghai the rich are rich - while the poor and infirm, as in many cities, beg on the streets, pot in hand.
	www.7days.ae /2005/12/16/enjoying-a-shanghai-surprise.html (488 words)

	Shanghai Travel Information \| Lonely Planet Destination Guide
		Shanghai is a scintillating city swirling with rapid cultural change.
		Since market restrictions were lifted, Shanghai has embraced the forces of business and design and rewritten its rule book shaping a fresh, new city that is sophisticated, innovative and living a life it has never lived before.
		While it can't match the epic history of Beijing or Xi'an's grander sights, Shanghai is the hotspot of modern China; a cosmopolitan city buzzing with the concept of 'lifestyle revolution', showcased in the architectural temples of art, fine dining and contemporary urban living on the Bund.
	www.lonelyplanet.com /worldguide/destinations/asia/china/shanghai (339 words)

	Shanghai Surprise \| Departures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Shanghai is young for a Chinese city, not having really come into its own until the 19th century, but it's the country's richest metropolis, and the museum's Chinese art collection, comprising some 120,000 works, is among the best in the world.
		Ordinarily, I'm allergic to condescending audioguides, but in Shanghai they are well-done, and an important aid: Unless you're well-versed in Chinese art, you'll miss not just the fine nuances but in some instances the whole point of the work, which is often symbolic or even occult.
		Part of its success is attributable to the new landscaping of the square: After the tumultuous events of the democracy movement in 1989, the vast, paved plaza was replaced by sloping gardens and pools—to prevent mass demonstrations in the future, according to popular lore.
	www.departures.com /ad/ad_1101_chinamuseum.html (2009 words)

	Shanghai Surprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Shanghai is one of the world's busiest ports and the atmosphere is unbeatable: thriving cutthroat commerce crossed with traditional culture and the cosmopolitan sense of the exotic that all truly international ports seem to generate.
		Shanghai is a city in a hurry, a city ahead of the curve.
		Shanghai is what the 21st century is going to look like, so come now for a glimpse of the future.
	www.faremax.com /articles/asia/china/shanghai.aspx (825 words)

	Shanghai Surprise
		Shanghai's Western influences - what the more generous might call its cosmopolitanism - is largely a product of the parade of colonial powers that trampled through the city over the last 150 years.
		I hear the statistic that 1/5th of all the world's building cranes are in Shanghai and this is reflective of the city's insane growth, which has turned the city into China's most populated and one of the densest in the world, with roughly 7.5 million crammed into the 136 sq.
		Shanghai is basically divided into two sections by the Huangpo River.
	www.o-dub.com /travel/shanghai/shanghai1.html (1834 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Northern Ireland \| Shanghai surprise for NI investors
		The waterfront in Shanghai is a snapshot of how the city, and China, have changed in the last 15 years.
		Shanghai's streets are also frequently gridlocked, as the infrastructure struggles to keep up with the pace of growth.
		The development of China is not without its problems; the growing gaps in wealth have created social tensions; there remains real concerns about human rights; the pollution that clogs Shanghai's skyline is a reminder of an environmental hangover that may have to be faced for decades to come.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4526580.stm (816 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Features \| Shanghai surprise
		The setting is Shanghai just before the 1937 Japanese invasion, when it was a haven for western adventurers and refugees from communism and fascism.
		Prewar Shanghai, then, is a seductive milieu to which writers and film-makers have returned repeatedly.
		Ishiguro's father was born in Shanghai in 1920; his grandfather was sent there to set up a Chinese branch of Toyota, which then specialised in textiles.
	film.guardian.co.uk /features/featurepages/0,,1742804,00.html (1901 words)

	CANOE Travel - Asia - Shanghai surprise
		Shanghai's reputation as a place where "anything goes" captured the imagination of filmmakers, who often cast the city as an Asian-style Wild West.
		Today, ultra urban Shanghai is the epicentre of 21st century China -- a sophisticated place of soaring skyscrapers and cosmopolitan young people with big appetites for tiny cellphones, tony designer labels and Karaoke TV clubs.
		"Shanghai girls are the most fashionable girls in China," explains Dou, as we stroll through the pedestrian area of Nanjing Road.
	travel.canoe.ca /Travel/Asia/Far-East/2005/09/11/1220390-sun.html (931 words)

	CuisineNet Cafe: Shanghai Surprise: Just Point and Eat in the City of 20,000,000 Mouths
		Maybe the most famous of the city's dishes is Shanghai Noodles, a simple but delicious dish of braised noodles with pan fried pork (ritzy hotels serve it with barbequed pork, a concession to Western tastes).
		Accompanied by the standard wheat pancake wrappers and hoisin sauce, Peking Duck in Shanghai is served with the meat separated from the duck skin (in Peking, according to some, the duck is often served with a thin layer of meat attached to the skin).
		Shanghai kitchens produce familiar pork buns and shu mai, but there are also regional favorites.
	www.cuisinenet.com /cafe/cuisinenet_abroad/1997/00002-1.html (533 words)

	Shanghai Surprise \| Metropolis Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It’s a sign of the gaudy boom that has transformed Shanghai into one of the world’s fastest-growing metropolises.
		During the 1990s central Shanghai was festooned with supercranes, and today it contains nearly 3,000 skyscrapers.
		In July 2004, “Green Chongming” received a giant boost when Chinese president Hu Jintao gave a speech to local farmers in the village of Farm Home Happiness—the ferry’s namesake—promoting the island as a national model for sustainability, energy efficiency, and environmental awareness.
	www.metropolismag.com /cda/story.php?artid=1756 (1165 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: The Sky Line (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Just as many of Shanghai’s skyscrapers reiterate gestures that long ago became clichés in the West—enormous atriums; tall, pointy spires—the idea of a Disneyfied old downtown is a recycled one.
		Shanghai has only a few parks and public squares, and they tend to be clumsily conceived.
		The architecture of the Bund has always been thought of as a symbol of Western influence on Shanghai, which may be one of the reasons that these grand buildings were disdained for so many years.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/skyline/articles/051226crsk_skyline (1437 words)

	EXPN.com - International - Shanghai Surprise
		More than 90 athletes gathered in Shanghai to take part in Asia's leading sports competition and compete for a chance to represent China at the regional qualifier to be held early next year in Malaysia.
		The Shanghai Xtour presented by TOYOTA marked the opening of the 2001 season, the fourth time that ESPN's X Games competition has been held in Asia.
		The Shanghai event is the only opportunity for Chinese athletes to enter the Asian X Games Qualifier presented by TOYOTA, which will take place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January 2002.
	expn.go.com /intl/xtour/2001/s/2001/1107/32009.html (566 words)

	Shanghai Surprise China's abuse of human rights is getting worse
		On a street in the middle of Shanghai, I wandered into a towering '20s edifice to admire its interior.
		On the surface, China does seem to be a rapidly changing place, especially to foreigners who spend their time in prospering eastern cities like Shanghai.
		The current group of Chinese leaders, human rights experts say, is less tolerant than the previous generation headed by Deng Xiaoping and, for a time, Zhao Ziyang, a reformer placed under house arrest after the 1989 Tiananmen massacres.
	www.thirdworldtraveler.com /Human_Rights/Shanghai_Surprise.html (2205 words)

	Shanghai surprise - Books - www.smh.com.au
		Last night it was judged best book of 2003 in the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, beating a Nobel Prize winner as well as the best in non-fiction, poetry and scripts.
		For now he was "grateful for the readers I know about who have read the book and picked up on its threads and understood it".
		He found such readers in the award judges, who said Shanghai Dancing was "a book which stretches the literary form and which speaks to the universality of the human experience.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/05/17/1084783452324.html (443 words)

	Shanghai surprise: in Shanghai Moon drag master Charles Busch spoofs those hokey old "mysteries of the Orient" movies - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Meanwhile, he remains devoted to his first love, which is performing onstage as a drag diva in self-written plays that simultaneously satirize and celebrate the old movies he grew up watching on TV.
		Shanghai Moon, his latest vehicle, parodies a peculiar pocket of early B-movies in which brassy American dames rubbed up against period stereotypes of "the mysterious Orient." Busch portrays Lady Sylvia Allington, who arrives in China with her husband, the British consul.
		She is met by the suave General Gong Fei and his staff: the ancient Dr. Wu and the beautiful young astrologer Mah Li, who loves Gong Fei.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2003_March_4/ai_98172216 (545 words)

	Shanghai Surprise Movie -The 80s Rewind «
		When making Shanghai Surprise, the filmmakers envisoned a romance similar to the one that developed between Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn in "The African Queen".
		The filming of Shanghai Surprise turned out to be a tough task.The film crew spoke nothing but Chinese, there were rats under the actors trailers, and several persons in the team fell ill from food poisoning.
		Being that ex-Beatle George Harrison was the execuitve producer of Shanghai Surprise, it is not so "surprising"(pun intended) that the soundtrack was structured to showcase his music.
	www.fast-rewind.com /shanghaisurprise.htm (1629 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Quick Reviews: Shanghai Surprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But only Sean Penn and Madonna are lucky enough to have Shanghai Surprise (1986), a movie at once so bad and so embarrassing that over the years it's earned a reputation somewhere on a par with Ishtar.
		She improves slightly as Miss Tatlock loosens up a bit, but it's all on a relative scale — her acting is wooden at best ("Oh my gosh," she says flatly, upon discovering that Glendon has been tortured by a vengeful cop).
		In the end, it's their failings, rather than the actors', that point out the most frustrating about Shanghai Surprise: The feeling that in the hands of a more capable group of people, a film set in the bustling, mysterious world of 1930s China could have been a fun, twisty piece of moviemaking.
	www.dvdjournal.com /quickreviews/s/shanghaisurprise.q.shtml (347 words)

	Politics and economics - Jun 21 \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse (via CobWeb/3.1 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mr Ahmadinejad's latest success came at last weekend's meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a pan-Asian economic and security grouping dominated by China and Russia.
		The summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation reveals how power is shifting in the world.
		At the one day annual summit of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) on June 15, more limelight fell on the leader of an observer country than on any of the main participants.
	www.energybulletin.net.cob-web.org:8888 /17429.html (1118 words)

	Shanghai Surprise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shanghai Surprise is a 1986 film starring Madonna and Sean Penn, produced by George Harrison's Handmade Films.
		Harrison appeared as a night club singer, and also recorded several songs for the film's soundtrack including the title track, "Shanghai Surprise".
		The movie was anything but a success and it was nominated for 5 Golden Raspberry Awards, 'winning' 1 of them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shanghai_Surprise (100 words)

	Shanghai Pocket Essentials for Palm OS
		Shanghai Pocket Essentials is a modern, solitaire version of the same named ancient oriental game, based on Activision's Shanghai Mah-Jongg series.
		Shanghai now comes to life with its support of the new handheld's high-density 320x320 pixel screen.
		When you complete a game (remove all tiles), Shanghai will keep track of your best times and includes the play mode and layout that brought you the win.
	www.landware.com /shanghai/palmos/index.html (374 words)

	Dan Washburn's Shanghai Diaries: Surprise! We’re married! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		US now wary of Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Iranian envoy (Payvand Iran News) An Iranian diplomat said here Tuesday that the United States has become wary of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) after Iran acquired observer status in this regional organization.
		Shanghai Pension Fund Rules To Take Effect Wed - Xinhua (Nasdaq) BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- Shanghai's municipal government will implement on Wednesday new rules on the management of the city's pension fund, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Tuesday.
		Shanghai Diaries is a hirefrank production using Moveable Type and Gallery with XHTML and CSS.
	www.shanghaidiaries.com /archives/2006/08/16/surprise_were_married (1235 words)

	Shanghai surprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		So there is something supremely comforting for a Westerner about strolling beneath the dreaming spire of an elegant sandstone church, ambling along leafy avenues of redbrick homes or sipping soothing ales on a green in front of solid Georgian town houses.
		All that tips you off that this isn't Foxrock or leafy stockbrokershire is the sight of blue-overalled migrant workers from Fujian province wearing broad straw sunhats against the baking sun as they spruce up the signage outside the village local.
		Yet the loud, dirty boom town of Shanghai seems far from the yew- and plane-lined avenues and cobbled, pedestrian-friendly streets of Thames Town.
	www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/-shanghai-surprise-/2006/09/30/1944158.htm (1959 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Shanghai Surprise
		Romantic: only in the sense that Shanghai Surprise is a celluloid monument to two gargantuan egos abjectly in love with themselves, and who share all the onscreen chemistry of Sly Stallone's pet turtles in the original Rocky.
		Instead, the holier-than-thou Gloria and her roustabout companion prowl the streets of 1938 Shanghai in search of "Faraday's Flowers," the local code phrase for the missing opium.
		Then there are those movies that are made for no better reason than celebrity spouses/significant others seek to spin their matrimony/shack-up-imony into cinematic gold, and they bully a film studio into letting them try.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/shanghaisurprise.php (1257 words)

	IGN: Shanghai Surprise
		After conquering the American West in Shanghai Noon, the mismatched duo are off to Victorian-era London.
		They're drawn across the pond when Chon's estranged father is murdered by Chinese rebels who escape to England – the resulting political fallout brings England and China to the brink of war.
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	movies.ign.com /articles/376/376364p1.html (277 words)

	Shanghai Surprise - Forbes.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ever-changing Shanghai, epicenter of China's booming economy, is a bustling, blustering city that epitomizes modern China.
		Its most remarkable hotel, the Grand Hyatt Shanghai, also captures the spirit of today's China: It is housed in the Jin Mao Tower, which is what a pagoda might look like if it had been turned into an 88-story skyscraper.
		Because the building is located at a bend in the river that separates the two sides of Shanghai, three-quarters of the hotel's rooms have river views.
	www.forbes.com /travel/2005/05/05/cz_rm_0505dow.html (779 words)

	Shanghai Surprise (1986) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		User Comments: The only surprise is how this movie got made (more)
		The only surprise is how this movie ended up being made.
		Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Shanghai Surprise (1986)
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0091934 (404 words)

	Shanghai Surprise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Known to some as the Pearl of the Orient, and to others as the Whore of the Orient, Shanghai is truly one of the world's great metropolises...when you can see it.
		This is a good indication, along with the 15 cents I paid for a Snickers bar and the 30 cents I paid for 16oz Pepsi, that the Yuan could appreciate quite a bit from current levels).
		As in any big city, there is a lot of poverty in Shanghai, and it is in your face everywhere.
	news.goldseek.com /DailyReckoning/1115845560.php (3177 words)

	Shanghai Surprise: Peter Filichia's Diary on TheaterMania.com
		A few years ago, Rong Guangrun, the president of Shanghai Theatre Academy, paid a visit to New Jersey's Montclair State University, where Susan Kerner is a teacher in the school's dance and drama department.
		After Kerner went to guest-teach at the Shanghai Theatre Academy, she got an idea thanks to Nina Zou, a bilingual instructor there.
		But what I really want to do is talk to the Shanghai students afterward and see what they have to say about their theatrical foreign exchange.
	www.theatermania.com /content/news.cfm/story/7035 (877 words)

	Schoeman springs Shanghai surprise
		Jade Edmistone from Australia, on her way to recording the fastest overall time during the Women's 50 metre breaststroke heats at the 8th FINA World Short Course Swimming Championships, held at the Qi Zhong stadium in Shanghai.
		Bus-loads of schoolchildren were brought in to fill the void at the 15,000-seat Qi Zhong stadium, more than an hour's drive from central Shanghai, where the United States and Australia made an early impression.
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	www.turkishpress.com /news.asp?id=117182 (489 words)

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