ABSTRACT
Hong Kong and Shanghai both recreated themselves in the contest of new globalization in the nineteenth century. Shanghai now has passed Hong Kong in many measures of growth from population to vertically increases in Gross domestic product (GDP), double digit annually since 1992. Shanghai holds many international headquarters and handles distribution to and from North and Central China, but South China has developed an independent system centered on Guangzhou and Hong Kong, with continuing Southeast Asian links as well. Today, both Communists and Nationalists invoke Sun as an ancestor. There are pilgrimage sites at his birthplace and his monumental tomb and a mausoleum in Taipei. Macau maintains his house and garden. Hong Kong memorializes him at Hong Kong University and plans a museum. History and culture have created a distinctive cityscape in Macau. This chapter concludes by contrasting South China with Shanghai, the northerly Chinese capital of growth and global contact.
