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The "Shanghai Lady", the famous metaphor for the Chinese metropolis, is remodeled in Shanghai Itch wherein the familiar figure, who once decorated the walls of pre-WWII Shanghai in posters selling Western products, has evolved into her own Marilyn Monroe. The iconic scene of Billy Wilder’s 1955 classic The Seven Year Itch once signaled a newer American society, and similarly, Shanghai moves freely and flirts with the Yangtze River winds of change in the way Tom Ewell’s character once flirted with Monroe’s. For, hiding under Shanghai’s silky lingerie-like exterior, lies a world full of deception, debauchery, innovation and cunning technology. The LED figure poses, standing as a beacon for the rest of China and luring all into the unexplored territories of her city. [Pete Bradt] |
