By: Phyllis Speser, CEO
If there was ever doubt over what “threat” the Chinese offer to Western technological dominance, shanghai puts stereotypes to bed. It’s big, it’s new, it’s bustling, and it’s beautiful. The architecture is breathtaking — literally. You see creativity like this elsewhere in Asia, but here is not just the buildings which are designed. There is an ascetic harmony which suggests someone planned this town or there is a jazz instinct at work. Either way its creative and wonderful. Go to the web and search for Shanghai, the bind, at night. See if you agree.
A people that know how to craft beauty in a LED studded skyline instance innovation and collaboration. This is no longer the China of cheap knock-offs. What it all means remains to be worked out, but China is open for business.
Shanghai- City of the future
Everyone jockeying smart phones for their selfie shot along the river
Behind them the steel, glass, and light
of the peoples’ aspirations
In front (and out of the picture)
the staid rock legacy of
renovated reversed colonialism
An orchestral landscape
Percussed with river barge engines
Propelling commerce