It is only in a society where people harm one another that you find people with such a weak sense of the law yet an extremely strong desire to protect their own interests—people who are terrified of being short-changed, regardless of whether they harm others in the process.
Among the most cowardly people in the world, there are bound to be Chinese; and among the Chinese, the most cowardly are surely the people of Shanghai. As a Shanghainese, I feel ashamed; only someone like Zhou Libo would take pride in this.