Shanghai Brain

Author: Chen Xian
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: What does "Shanghai Mind" want to say? In summary, it wants to discuss the wisdom, spirit, thinking, behavior, weaknesses, flaws, and joys and sorrows of Shanghai people from different perspectives, levels, times, and eras. Some chapters may cover a wider scope, touching on distant events, while others focus more on the reform and opening-up, especially the past decade. Shanghai is a metropolis, and a metropolis is a place where cultures converge and collide. The people here have unique ways of thinking, dealing with things, and acting. Shanghai is an Eastern metropolis where Eastern and Western cultures blend and transform, endowing Shanghai people with cultural characteristics distinct from those in other cities. Shanghai is also an international metropolis, often associated with vibrant, alluring, and even heaven-and-hell-like cultural impressions. Therefore, "Shanghai Mind" aims to tell the stories and details that exist in the lifestyles of Shanghai people and are connected to the cultural characteristics of Shanghai.