Oh China, how you've changed! Part 2

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I spent a year and a half in China in 1947/1948. Most of it in Tsingtao, but some of it in Shanghai. I cannot beleive the changes since then. I see areas on the internet that are almost unrecognizable. In those years China was a dangerous place to be. For the most part we would travel outside in small groups, or at least two. My only description of China at that time has to be filthy, and smelly. At shanghai our ship was anchored off the Bund. I saw dead bodies floating down the Whangpoo every day, and in the evening a barge would make way down river, grappling the bodies with hooks and bringing them aboard. What happened to them later I had no idea. Ricksha boys were constantly trying to rob you, and if you ran into trouble with one, the Chinese police were no help. Your only escape and safety was darting into the lobby of the Cathay Hotel, or Park Hotel on Nanking Rd.
Even so I was fascinated with the country.

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