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Shanghai's Phoenix Rising: How the City's Women Are Rewriting the Rules of Chinese Femininity The morning light filters through the glass skyscrapers of Lujiazui as 29-year-old tech entrepreneur Zhang Mei-Ling adjusts her wireless earpiece, simultaneously reviewing her startup's quarterly reports while video-chatting with her Milanese fashi
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"The Greater Shanghai Experiment: How China's Richest Metropolitan Area is Redefining Regional Integration" Part I: The 1+8 Mega-City RegionThe newly established Shanghai Metropolitan Area integrates nine cities (Shanghai + 8 surrounding Jiangsu/Zhejiang cities) into a single economic unit with 75 million people generating 20% of China's GDP.Core Integra