Comments on: Tokyo vs Shanghai – first impressions http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/ Gianfranco Chicco's blog: a place to collect ideas, experiences and random thoughts... Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:41:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Gian http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-377 Gian Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:41:51 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-377 Thanks for your comment. I wrote this article several years ago so I'm sure that in a fast paced city like Shanghai a lot of things have changed (thanks also to the World Expo in 2010). I'm looking forward to visiting again soon... Thanks for your comment. I wrote this article several years ago so I’m sure that in a fast paced city like Shanghai a lot of things have changed (thanks also to the World Expo in 2010). I’m looking forward to visiting again soon…

]]> By: Mark http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-376 Mark Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:27:15 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-376 First, thank you. I was really interested in your article, and it really made some points more clear to me. I'm actually in China for study, and I live in Shanghai for one month. I have to say that the Shanghai you talk about isn't like the one I saw... The city must have changed in three years I think. When I was in Shanghai, people were looking at me, but not like "oh he's a foreigner, look" and also, they didn't talk to me, except the ones who want you to buy their fake product (as you very well said.) I loved that city. I mean, right now I am in the real China (the one still developing, with no strangers living there) and I must admit that this is hell, cause they all pa attention to you, just like you were an alien... About the girls who do not take care of theirself... I should say that it may has changed a bit, but not so far to make me proud of Chinese girl. Once again, thank you for your article, I was pleased to read it ! First, thank you. I was really interested in your article, and it really made some points more clear to me. I’m actually in China for study, and I live in Shanghai for one month. I have to say that the Shanghai you talk about isn’t like the one I saw… The city must have changed in three years I think. When I was in Shanghai, people were looking at me, but not like “oh he’s a foreigner, look” and also, they didn’t talk to me, except the ones who want you to buy their fake product (as you very well said.) I loved that city. I mean, right now I am in the real China (the one still developing, with no strangers living there) and I must admit that this is hell, cause they all pa attention to you, just like you were an alien… About the girls who do not take care of theirself… I should say that it may has changed a bit, but not so far to make me proud of Chinese girl.
Once again, thank you for your article, I was pleased to read it !

]]> By: Gian http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-358 Gian Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:12:49 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-358 Thanks Jason. I wrote my impressions on both cities a couple of years ago and I believe they are like organisms. While Tokyo us very active, it still follows the same dynamics as in the previous decade. On the other side, Shanghai is dramatically reinventing itself, both physically and culturally. I guess that if I visited it now (after an absence of 4 years), I would notice huge changes in the landscape and the people. Thanks Jason. I wrote my impressions on both cities a couple of years ago and I believe they are like organisms. While Tokyo us very active, it still follows the same dynamics as in the previous decade. On the other side, Shanghai is dramatically reinventing itself, both physically and culturally. I guess that if I visited it now (after an absence of 4 years), I would notice huge changes in the landscape and the people.

]]> By: Jason http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-357 Jason Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:28:25 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-357 Great post! a few words to say about shanghai, we cannot deny the Shanghai's power is increasingly growing as a non-capital city. It still has some ideologies left from the colonization. China is a very typical centralized country and the government highly invested in their capital not shanghai. as the result of Shanghai's development, shanghai became one of a biggest city in the world and it has lots of good strategies used without government's helps. In China, government's policies hugely control the economic development. as someone mentioned, Sydney is different. its biggest economic sector is financial and tourism, industry is very few. Australian economy is significantly rely on their mineral and agricultural exporting and the most important gateway to Asia is Perth not Sydney. But Sydney is a huge fancy city anyway, lots of Asian, great view but fewer business atmosphere. Great post! a few words to say about shanghai, we cannot deny the Shanghai’s power is increasingly growing as a non-capital city. It still has some ideologies left from the colonization. China is a very typical centralized country and the government highly invested in their capital not shanghai. as the result of Shanghai’s development, shanghai became one of a biggest city in the world and it has lots of good strategies used without government’s helps. In China, government’s policies hugely control the economic development. as someone mentioned, Sydney is different. its biggest economic sector is financial and tourism, industry is very few. Australian economy is significantly rely on their mineral and agricultural exporting and the most important gateway to Asia is Perth not Sydney. But Sydney is a huge fancy city anyway, lots of Asian, great view but fewer business atmosphere.

]]> By: Gian http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-355 Gian Tue, 28 Dec 2010 17:13:21 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-355 By default if you're a westerner they tend to assume that you speak English... By default if you’re a westerner they tend to assume that you speak English…

]]> By: SpaceBar http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-354 SpaceBar Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:28:24 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-354 You mentioned that in Shanghai, people talked to you in English often... so they just assumed that you spoke English based on how you look? You mentioned that in Shanghai, people talked to you in English often… so they just assumed that you spoke English based on how you look?

]]> By: kalasitoya http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-328 kalasitoya Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:58:10 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-328 Shanghai has the most incredible skyline in the world,it is developing so fast,but Tokyo is cleaner and more expensive Shanghai has the most incredible skyline in the world,it is developing so fast,but Tokyo is cleaner and more expensive

]]> By: David http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-312 David Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:35:03 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-312 well i think shanghai talking about engineering is way better than tokyo, it should be like that cause it has been developed in the last years and tokyo was on the 80s and 90s, skyline shanghai has a amazing skyline with 3 Superskycrapers and another coming fo 636 m by 2014, has a maglev, and by 2020 will have 22 metro lines even one will link with another city and another ones even going to islands i guess by 2020 Shanghai will show to ther world that it really is the best city Personal opinion i have been in both cities pst Im an engineer i care more about how the city was built and not about the living or social stuff from my point of view well i think shanghai talking about engineering is way better than tokyo, it should be like that cause it has been developed in the last years and tokyo was on the 80s and 90s, skyline shanghai has a amazing skyline with 3 Superskycrapers and another coming fo 636 m by 2014, has a maglev, and by 2020 will have 22 metro lines even one will link with another city and another ones even going to islands i guess by 2020 Shanghai will show to ther world that it really is the best city

Personal opinion i have been in both cities
pst Im an engineer i care more about how the city was built and not about the living or social stuff from my point of view

]]> By: michelangelo http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-309 michelangelo Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:22:52 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-309 hello, can i write in italian? sono stato a tokyo 4 volte (sto per andarci ancora). hai descritto tokyo in un modo assolutamente reale (a shanghai non sono mai stato)! mi sono divertito molto! thank you for your opinion about Tokyo and Shanghai, I found it very usefull! hello, can i write in italian? sono stato a tokyo 4 volte (sto per andarci ancora).
hai descritto tokyo in un modo assolutamente reale (a shanghai non sono mai stato)! mi sono divertito molto!
thank you for your opinion about Tokyo and Shanghai, I found it very usefull!

]]> By: Gian http://www.gchicco.com/2008/07/10/tokyo-vs-shanghai-first-impressions/comment-page-1/#comment-308 Gian Mon, 07 Dec 2009 08:54:38 +0000 http://www.gchicco.com/?p=30#comment-308 @Bren: the answer is simple... I've haven't been to Sydney (yet)! Cheers @Bren: the answer is simple… I’ve haven’t been to Sydney (yet)! Cheers

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