Scenes from Shanghai

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Shanghai's futuristic skyline is a testament to the city's rapid economic growth. China's largest and most cosmopolitan city is a fascinating mixture of past and present.

A rice vendor uses her mobile phone at a wholesale market in Shanghai.

Foreign tourists visit Yu Garden, one of the most popular tourism sites in Shanghai. The booming economy draws millions to China to work, study and travel, and criminals increasingly are defying a culture that has long considered foreigners inviolate.

A sugar cane vender waits for customers.

Shanghai combines new and old architecture. The Islands 6 art gallery in Shanghai's Moganshan Road district is part of a converted factory.

A stall in a Shanghai market sells crickets, which are raised in China for fighting and for their song-like chirps.

A bird is for sale in a market in downtown Shanghai.

A Shanghai resident checks out the street life on Dongtai Road.

A crowd watches men playing mahjong on Shanghai's Dongtai Road.

Diners at Shanghai's Nanxiang Steamed Bun restaurant eat pork and crab-filled buns, a specialty in the city.

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Shanghai's futuristic skyline is a testament to the city's rapid economic growth. China's largest and most cosmopolitan city is a fascinating mixture of past and present.

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