Shanghai is altogether different from other parts of China. In fact it is different from any other part of the globe. Return-i li as it one had got out of Europe and not got into Asia, but into some other place, say America with a dash of Australia and a sprinkling of Chinkiang. It somehow reminds one of the suburbs of some place one has never visited. A great feature in Shanghai is the calling. Quite number of People called the morning after we landed. They were not kept waiting on the mat: in fact, they would not wait, lit in, saying they felt faint, restoratives.
wghai is very proud of its magnificent Bund, which beats any other Bund in the world, including the Thames Embankment and the Praya at Hongkong. Shanghai is also somewhat proud of its Club, and justly so. Tt was built after the design of a first class architect. He considered this sufficient for his reputation and never designed another. His name is unknown. The building of it is supposed to have ruined three contractors; it became bankrupt in 1869, recovered vitality in 1870, and firmly established its reputation for harmless conviviality in the years 1883/84 by which time it was well known all over the
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