A great post on a topic that's of great interest to me: how do Beijing and Shanghai really compare in terms of cost of living and cost of entertaining? Interesting to see the blogger's arguments, as well as the commenters'.... ...full story at Peking Duck
from Peking Duck on Mon, Feb 26 2007
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