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Shanghai, China
6 places worth your time in Shanghai, with what each is actually like and when to go.
A kilometre of 1920s banking houses facing the futurist skyline across the river — the two Shanghais in one view.
A Ming scholar's garden from 1559, all rockeries and moon gates, wrapped in a reconstructed bazaar.
Plane-tree avenues and shikumen lanes, the most walkable part of the city and the least like the rest of it.
One of China's great collections — bronzes, ceramics and calligraphy — free to enter on People's Square.
Canals, stone bridges and Ming-Qing houses an hour west, and a plausible day out.
128 floors and the world's second-tallest building, with an observation deck at 561 metres.
