The ultimate insider's guide covering everything from the huge new art galleries of the West Bund to the chic eating places of the renovated Cool Docks Shanghai is the twenty-first-century city par excellence
- the financial centre of the world's new superpower Expanding wildly in all directions it's a vibrant place making waves in everything from contemporary art to cutting-edge architecture Cutting through the hype The Rough Guide to Shanghai reveals the best places to shop from fake markets to backstreet tailors; to sleep whether you want a quirky hostel Art Deco cool or a luxury sky scraping suite; & to eat from destination restaurants to humble dumpling stalls Day-trips include quaint canal towns the new Chinese Disneyland & lovely Nanxiang made newly accessible by the expanding metro network An updated metro map shows all the new stops while every hotel restaurant bar club & shop is marked on our easy-to-read full-colour city maps