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Cosmopolitan Shanghai Is an Uneasy Fit in China’s Narrative of Western Sins

The New York Times World / Global / 1m ago / Andrew Higgins and Qilai Shen
Cosmopolitan Shanghai Is an Uneasy Fit in China’s Narrative of Western Sins

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Shanghai’s many layers of architecture, culture and politics have made it a difficult fit for the Communist Party’s preferred narrative of Chinese victimhood and Western sins.

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