Shanghai Diaries_19/09/2019_02

Walking through the Bund area, along the side streets is highly recommended. Free from the insane crowd and extremely suffocating retail outlets, one can savour the juxtaposition of the old and the new as well as have the space to stand peacefully without being pushed aside.

Everywhere you turn, you witness the constant conflict between the heritage and the effort to preserve it while the New gradually imposes itself in a bid to make its presence felt.

There is a character in these buildings that reaches out to the soul even after so many years that no glass box can compete with. The raging debate of our time though is how long should we cling on to the past, and at what expense? Sometimes, annihilating the old and building anew may be the prudent thing to do. Then again, who am I to say what those with the means should do?

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