Moganshan: Anyone for a top up?
In the early 1900s Moganshan became a heat retreat for Shanghai's saints and sinners. Now the party's started again. Mark Kitto heads up to the hills and raises a glass.
Every cosmopolitan society in a hot climate has its heat retreat. The Imperial British in India had Simla, in Kenya they had Mount Kenya itself. New Yorkers have the Hamptons. Canadians have Whistler (though whether they are escaping the heat or the rain is a moot point). And we all [ read more ]
