Readers' Digest Feb issue:
Modern Shanghai is a speeding car with no rear-view mirror. Decades of hardship and economic stagnation have been blasted away by an accelerating economy that has no equal on the planet. Ask a young Shanghai resident what is the best part of the city and you are likely to hear an opinion like that of student Linda Zhu :"Pudong is the best she says, referring to the forest of glitzy high-rises that has erupted on a once-empty patch of ground across the Huangpu river.
Why is Shanghai likened to a car with no rear view mirrors?
2007-03-07 21:01:07 · 7 answers · asked by charlotte 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Let's take in the point of view of a car. A car with no rear-view mirrors means that the person driving it cannot see what is happening at the back and can only look ahead. In the same way, modern Shanghai is acting as a rear-view mirror, by not looking back and brooding over its decades of hardship and looking forward only to a rapidly growing economy which only benefits the people.
2007-03-07 21:17:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shanghai is becoming modernized at a very rapid pace. There is no place for the past (like undeveloped land and no doubt the old ways of doing things in Shanghai) in this new world of high-rise construction and affluence (affluence because the hardship and economic stagnation is over and there is a booming economy).
A car with no rear view mirrors is a car that is racing forward and no one can see where they have come from.
Shanghai is being modernized and leaving its past behind and no one cares about its past and preserving the old ways. It's all about affluence and glitzy high-rises, like in any other modern city in the world.
2007-03-07 21:12:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This paragraph is basically saying that Shanghai's economy is moving forward at a rapid pace and has pretty much left its "old-self" behind.
2007-03-07 21:10:53 · answer #3 · answered by Chrisguy4 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Shanghai is moving ahead and not looking back, concerned with it's present and future success rather than where it's been in the past.
2007-03-07 21:08:17 · answer #4 · answered by Mike E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This means that they are accelerating forward without looking back on their past troubles.
2007-03-07 21:09:29 · answer #5 · answered by mel s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess once you arrive, you will be so swept away, there will be no desire to look back where you came from.
2007-03-07 21:10:32 · answer #6 · answered by Mrs.Blessed 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nooooooooooooooooo idea?????????????????????
2007-03-07 21:10:31 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋