Burning brightly on the shores of the Huangpu River, the neon lights of the Shanghai skyline hark back to Fitzgerald’s description in The Great Gatsby of a gleaming city rising up alongside the Hudson River - New York City, the quintessentially cosmopolitan city and the embodiment of the American Dream, with the “wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.” The Dutch sailors who navigated up the Hudson to claim their own piece of the New World would scarcely believe that their tiny settlement named New Amsterdam would become what it has.