Shanghaied by a dream of riches

Shanghaied by a dream of riches

Headline: Shanghaied by a dream of richesSource: EuromoneyDate: October 2000 more on China Shanghai: divided by a river I’m sitting on the 86th floor of the world’s tallest hotel and its third-highest building, sipping a $5 bottle of Tsingtao beer, and I don’t feel welcome. Even though I’m a guest, the […]

Headline: Shanghaied by a dream of riches
Source: Euromoney
Date: October 2000

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Shanghai: divided by a river

I’m sitting on the 86th floor of the world’s tallest hotel and its third-highest building, sipping a $5 bottle of Tsingtao beer, and I don’t feel welcome. Even though I’m a guest, the waiting staff have glanced with obvious disapproval at my jeans and at the fake designer polo shirt I picked up for next to nothing in Beijing, and frogmarched me towards an uncomfortable high-backed stool in a quiet and poorly lit corner of the bar.

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