Daily quote by Shanghai

• With its newspapers and radio stations in every language, Shanghai was a media city before its time, celebrated as the 'Paris of the Orient' and the wickedest city in the world ... Unlimited venture capitalism rode in style down streets lined with beggars showing their sores and wounds ... Every day the trucks of the Shanghai Municipal Council roamed the streets collecting the thousands of bodies of destitute Chinese who had starved to death on Shanghai's pavements, the hardest in the world.
  • Ballard, p. 5