Come to appreciate the high life of Shanghai

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David Barboza, Skyrocketing Prices May Point to a Real Estate Bubble in
China. New York Times, Mar. 5, 2010 (title in the  print).
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/business/global/05yuan.html?scp=1&sq=china%20bubble%20&st=cse

My comment:
(1) A Chinese-language SUMMARY can be found
in
纽约时报:在泡沫质疑声中,中国房产坚挺依旧. 中国经济网, Mar. 5, 2010.
http://intl.ce.cn/specials/zxxx/201003/05/t20100305_21062514.shtml

(2) For Swarovski crystal, see Swarovski
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarovski
(the luxury brand name for the range of precision-cut crystal glass;
produced by Swarovski AG of Wattens, Austria, founded in 1895; "It was the
1892 invention and patenting of Swarovski's innovative electric glass-
cutting machine which prompted the company to be created")

(3)
(1) Tomson Riviera (of Shanghai) 汤臣一品
www.tomson-riviera.com

(b) Charles Tong 汤子嘉

(c) Riviera is an Italian term originally from the Middle Ages for the coast
of Liguria, which is now divided, by national border, into Itlian and
French Riviera. Wikipedia.

(4) Salvador Dalí
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Dal%C3%AD
(1904-1989; Catalan surrealist)

(5) Fendi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fendi
(Fendi is a Italian high fashion house best known for its "baguette"
handbags. It was launched in 1925 as a fur and leather shop in Rome, but
today is a multinational luxury goods brand owned by LVMH. Karl Lagerfeld is
the creative director)

* Its origin: In 1925, Adele and Edoardo Fendi opened a small store.
* Official web site: http://www.fendi.it

(6) Liu Yiqian 刘益谦

(7) New Canaan, Connecticut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Canaan,_Connecticut
(an upscale town in Fairfield County, Connecticut; the county, among the
highest-income counties in US, is next to and to the right of
Westchester county, New York state)

(8)
(a) Gaggenau (appliances)
http://www.gaggenau.com/change-country.do

(b) Gaggenau
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaggenau
(a town in Germany)

(9) Come to appreciate the high life of Shanghai.

"OnlyDNA" 中国大陆最贵豪宅 Versace Home at Tomson Riviera. ONLYDNA纯尚杂志,
Dec. 28, 2009.
http://blog1.poco.cn/myBlogDetail-htx-id-4129242-userid-37638022-pri--n-0.xhtml

(9) I am Americanized. So I am not jealous but envious.

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