Stop Press
EVERY so often in this Billingham-on- Yangtze come reminders that head office is watching, and will not let things get out of hand. One day the International Herald Tri- bune......
City And Suburban
Heaven is high and the emperor's far away China copies the ICI model CHRISTOPHER FILDES T Shanghai here is nothing like an arduous swan round the Far East to give you a new per-......
The Dragon's Head
BILLINGHAM-on-Yangtze is booming, and shows every sign of it. Tower blocks rocket upwards through the night. Marmo- real hotels offer every kind of restaurant, including......
Canary Flies East
BARNSTORMING through Shanghai the other day, Michael Heseltine saw and praised the transformation of Pudong, the east side of the city. It reminded him, he said, of what his own......
Moment Of Danger
STILL in old Shanghai, under the fretted domes of the Astor House's private theatre, is a thriving model of capitalist innovation: the Stock Exchange. Just five years old and......
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