Shanghai Woman is always the focus of men around the country. Writers have created innumerable stories about Shanghai Woman.

In most people's minds, Shanghai Woman is always a daughter from a middle class family with a comparatively modest family background.

Since she was a little girl, her mother has told her to be a good lady, to speak in tender voice, be polite, be neat and tidy, learn some knitting and cooking, be a good student in class ?better still go abroad in order to have a rosy future.

When she grows a little older, the windows of stores on Huaihai Lu moulded her taste for fashion. She is good at learning from the T-stage and dressing herself up. She spends a large proportion of her income on clothes because she knows the value of youth and beauty and she wants to keep up with the latest look.

She likes the words "taste" and "atmosphere." She works hard at becoming a woman of good taste. No matter whether choosing a restaurant, a cafe or shopping place, she always demands the atmosphere be just right. To her, enjoying the atmosphere in the first-class venues of the metropolis is much important than the dish or cup of coffee provided there.

She never conceals her enthusiasm for earning money because the place she lives has been an economic centre for a long time and bears witness to the importance of its economic basis. With enough money, she can do whatever she wants. So she works hard, but also doesn't deny herself the opportunity of marrying a rich man.

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