Shanghai: City Between Cultures (Incl. 4 Music Cds)

Shanghai"city between cultures, from Pearl of the Orient to New China s boomtown, where age-old culture and traditions are side by side with pulsating modern life. A city between different worlds, ever changing, and in its midst"the people, speed and pauses, loud and garish, and the aloof silence of watching. Music CDs: From the Shanghai Opera and traditional sounds of Chinese music to the hits from the 1930s and 1940s, complemented by interpretations of old melodies and today s music, which connect the inheritance of Old China with Western-inspired lounge elements.