Shagless in Schizoid Shanghai

Home to 17 million people, this port city acts as a proverbial funnel for all the economic resources going in or coming out of the mainland China. Treated as a free trade zone despite the vices of a inflexible government, the underlying psyche of communism lies just beneath the surface of a polished and cosmopolitan venir.
I arrived into Shanghai on the sleeper flight from Bangkok, bleary eyed and sorry to be leaving the land of smiles. I was immediately thrown into the grinder of Chinese public protocol, a polite way to say that I was pushed and shoved every which way from the moment I got off the plane. It was quite commonplace to see either man woman or child hawk up a giant green loogie and spit it right at your feet without a second thought as to why this might seem a tad bit repulsive. Giant belches and gaseous anal purging were the staples of the public symphony.

Continue Reading June 5th, 2002