Shanghai's Pudong district, across the Huangpu river from the old foreign bank buildings on the Bund, shows just how serious China is: a Hong Kong-style skyline of towering buildings, including one housing the largest stockmarket trading-floor in the world, all of it built in just the past decade.

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One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.

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