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Shanghai Travel Guide

Widely regarded as the citadel of China's modern economy, the city also serves as one of the nation's most important cultural, commercial, financial, industrial and communications centers.

About Shanghai

Shanghai covers an area of 2717 sq. miles (7037 sq. Km) and is estimated to have a population of 18.5 million people being the largest city of the People's Republic of China and the eighth largest in the world.

Museum of Contemporary Art/MOCA

Opened in 2005, this beautiful three-story glass structure houses Shanghai’s first contemporary art museum. Given the city’s fledgling art scene, this museum is certainly not in the same league as better-known MOCAs around the world, but its two floors of exhibition space connected by a curving ramp are enough to showcase plenty of goofy, interesting, ridiculous, sublime, “this-is-art?” paintings, photographs, and installations by Chinese and international artists. The admission price is a bit steep for what you get, though for our money, the building itself is more interesting and can be appreciated gratis from the outside or if you simply tell them at the door that you’re going to the MOCA Caffe restaurant on the third floor. There you can dine on decent Italian fare or just sip your cappuccino on the rooftop terrace.

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