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For decades after the Communist victory, in 1949, Shanghai remained largely intact, preserved by benign neglect, its architecture a rich legacy of the polyglot collision of Asian and Western cultures that formed the city. Since the nineties, however, Shanghai's metamorphosis into a towering mega-city has been an ineluctable and pitiless process of paving over nearly all previous traces--a phenomenon stunningly documented in Greg Girard's garish, ...