The reason I was there was because I was attending a conference at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on world-class universities and global college rankings. I got to know a lot of the attendees, who hailed from all over the world: Italy, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, China, South Africa, many E.U. nations, etc. But Camelia, from Romanian, and I immediately hit it off. Here we are in front in the Yu Gardens, the touristy part of downtown-ish Shanghai that is meant to be traditional and authentic and old-Chinese-style. It's where they took us for dinner on the last night of the conference.
The buildings were all lit up when we finished dinner.
Then we went on a night cruise of the Huangpu River. Here is a shot of the Bund, a part of Shanghai along the western waterfront on which Europeans built, well, European-style buildings when they controlled parts of Shanghai.
The Oriental Pearl TV tower is the striking tall object. It's located on the Pudong side, to the east of the river, which is relatively newly developed and where a lot of fancy office buildings and hotels are now.
I just thought this boat looked totally awesome, contrasting with the modern, blinking buildings in the background.
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