Shanghai has always been many things to many people. A colonial adventure for 19th-century Europeans, with the Bund remaining as the single most symbolic city feature of that time. A center of trade and shipping, with the world's biggest and busiest port. A place where the East and the West mingle, swapping ideas and enriching each other in many ways. Shanghai's haipai culture reflects excatly this tranditional openness to the world.
