shanghai wildlife

I read in City Weekend ,the expats' guide to Shanghai and Beijing that the Shanghai Wildlife Park is not for the squeamish. I quote from Namrita Sharma's article (that I can't find on line), "Be forewarned though: the bus park is not for young children or those with a delicate temperament. Before passing into the second enclosure, men with chickens board the bus, tie ropes round the chickens necks and hang them from the window. the bus drives at speed and tigers leap at the vehicle to grab the chickens. Occasionally they only manage to bite off half the animal, a gruesome sight." (You can contact Sharma for confirmation of this vivid story at shguide@cityweekend.com.cn) It's
the kind of spectacle that we in the West are loathe to endorse: we have become too prudish about the vicious competitiveness and predatory violence that simmers underneath our modern bureaucracies and our fabled free markets.

You can buy your haute couture items at Xintiandi
, which is comprised of fastidiiously restored "Old Shanghai" residences turned into beautiful retail space for Armani Exchange and Chloé etc., and then head out to watch hungry tigers tear apart chickens hanging from the windows of your safari bus. Watch out for the flying gristle! But don't worry, they've got great dry cleaners in this town too. Some body will know how to get that blood stain out of your kid's MiuMiu top!

Downward facing dog! Were those chickens still alive?