The Streets of Shanghai

That last part with the people dancing was really interesting. Who was supplying the music? If it really was spontaneous I couldn't imagine it happening here in the US. I guess they were letting their hair down on a blustery evening.

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Well this one is the perfect example when old met with new and both are working together to make china more better place to live.

Nice to see two aspect of China

Its a great city.
Curious how the weekend nichts are there

Awesome city, I dream to visit it one day.

well.....still many bicycle on the street, little town but very busy in business activity in asia

I like how wide the roads are. Driving on narrow roads is a pain in the ass.

Been to Shanghai a few times. Loved it there. But like all big cities, when you blow your nose, you get black soot mixed with your green.

I could never guess that Shanghay its more like NYC than a regular china town in the movies. Seems some sort of Hong Kong.

China is now one of the fastest developing countries of the world. Nice video JOhn.

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I would be scared stiff driving along the streets of Shanghai that's for sure. It looks frightening. Your video editing skill is pretty good and loved the intro music.

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thanks for video.....feel like life in shanghay

haha...that looks very familiar to me. I was born in shanghai and lived their most of my life time. :)

One thing I hate the most is I am scared driving there.

It's more North American then I may have guessed. Complete controlled chaos like NYC.

Shanghai is a nice place to visit but not for stay...definitely not for me! I hate big city!

haha@ the family on the scooter....america is too fat for that to work..

Nice video, but I must say I'm disappointed I didn't see a John Chow joining in on the dancing!

Ever sinced I watched the movie Red Corner, starring Richard Gere, as one man against China's "system"...China has scared me.

Is that all just movies, or does China's government really function like that - w/ a strong dictatorship, and some corruption?

Just watching the first 30 seconds of that video I get a real sense of hierarchy there, people who are new rich with cars while the poorer have peddle bikes, and there are scooters in between.

Not bad for a society which doesn't believe in over borrowing. Not like here in America, where you will see some 20 year old kids that work at McDonalds driving an IS300 with an iPhone.

I never been back to China, but it really looks like a lot has changed since my parents days.

PS. It must be really easy to fill that 6 story mall up with goods, since most of the stuff is probably made by China.

And LOL at the last two guys on the left dancing what looks like some strange coal hopping move.

ooo..shanghai street is crowded with cars..I think HongKong will be the same situation like in the video clip but HongKong street should be full of passenger but not cars. :D
My country got the same situation, traffic jam like hell. =.="

Haha, great video John! Brings back some really good memories of my times there. You see older folks dance like that a lot in China. I used to see that in just about every city I went to in China. The young people go to the clubs though. :)

Great video John, you could grab a lawn chair and sit next to that intersection and probably get famous on youtube just filming people getting hit. That's how it looks anyway.

I had trouble seeing the video at first, it "pops" above everything else but the "free ebook" pops above the video control area and the fade in signup screen from aweber renders the screen useless, it's covered by the video that I can start. It took me a minute to close the stuff, lol. thought you'd want to know.

that was a really good video about the city. Thanks for sharing John!

Be sure to do some similar videos when you get to GuangZhou!

The city looks great John. I am planning on going to China sometime this year and your video just made me want to go there like now!

Unfortunately, my Flash is lower than Flash 9.
Commenting first, downloading Flash 9, then I could see the video. It must be a nice video. :)

the Grand Gateway Plaza was just besides the place where i had worked for. John, a short suggestion, could you next time take a video about young people's life in Shanghai? cheers.

Shanghai is really buzzing with activities.

Are you having fun over there?