If you want to see how much China has changed over the past 20 years, you need only look at the Shanghai skyline. In 1990 the peninsula of Lujiazui, now known as the Pudong New Area, was just shanty homes, warehouses and wharfs. Today, it’s China’s answer to Manhattan. The towering skyscrapers are a lurid expression of China’s new financial power – a physical manifestation of the country’s rejuvenation.