ABSTRACT
The Bund delimits Puxi and stretches along the banks of the Huangpu River in front of Shanghai’s grandest colonial architecture, directly across from the skyline of Pudong’s futuristic Liujiazui financial district. A high school graduate from Shandong province, he was hoping to travel before furthering his education or properly joining the workforce, and had taken a job at the hostel several months earlier, but has had so little off time he hasn’t been able to explore Shanghai much. Sweeping shots of China’s iconic cities, including Shanghai, are sure to feature in the New Year’s Eve variety shows that will be broadcast on nearly every station. The official microblog—the Chinese equivalent of Twitter—of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau reassured the public that an official investigation had concluded that the stampede had already occurred by the time the fake money was released.
