The Far East of today is a far cry from the place it was over sixty years ago. Skyscrapers have largely taken the place of the Colonial architecture and the scenery is vastly different now. The top image shows a bustling Shanghai seafront scene in 1949 with steamships and smaller craft jostling for berths.
The lower image is of Hong Kong from the same year. After sixty years this scene has not just changed but is unrecognisable as skyscrapers have taken over completely from the low rise buildings of the past when the pagoda in the foreground was perhaps the tallest building in the city.
