Shanghai

WARNING ALL EX-PATS in SHANGHAI - You're off to the zoo.....

Submitted by mccannom on Fri, 2006-05-12 16:57. :: Entertainment | Shanghai

Shanghai Preparing for 'Human Zoo' Thu May 11, 6:01 PM ET

SHANGHAI, China - Shanghai is getting set to open a "human zoo."

Four Australian men will live in a glass box on a downtown mall for two weeks in June, with the public able to watch them sleeping, eating and bathing, a news report said Thursday.

The group, known as the Urban Dream Capsule, has drawn crowds with similar displays in London, Montreal, Hong Kong and other cities.

"They won't turn off the lights or pull down the curtains. They show their whole life, from getting up to going to bed," Karen Chang, the event's organizer, told the Shanghai Daily newspaper.

Shanghai

'Whore of the Orient, Paris of the East' was how Shanghai Shanghai Old Town was described in the 1920s and that pretty much sums up the place now following China’s re-opening up to the west and the rapid influx of foreign investment. A city of close to 20milion people, it’s a buzzing metropolis full off east-meets west confusion where just about anything is for sale.

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