Playa Camarones («Shrimp Beach») stretches from the Rio Cuale north
along the Malecon (the downtown sea - front
promenade),
past the north end of Downtown («El Centro») to the south end of the «hotel zone».
The backdrops in Contemporary Business seem carefully chosen to reflect upon Shanghai's and China's complicated
past, its rapid present transformations, and its undecided future, as the merry band of outsiders groove in front of a massive, drab communist style housing project, dance on the Bund
along Shanghai's Huangpu River, a vibrant
promenade lined with handsome Neo-Classical, Beaux - Arts and Art - Deco buildings (former banks and financial houses from the 19th and early 20th centuries) that are beautiful relics of Shanghai's colonial
past and emblems of the city's cosmopolitan present.