Where is John?

When I left I understood I was going to Shanghai.  Shanghai is a modern metropolitan city with a very Chinese spin on things.  I am not in Shanghai, I am on Changxing Dao, and island in the Yangtze river.  With the exception of being in China and populated with Chinese Changxing Dao is the binary NOT of Shanghai.  Where I am you see these driving down the street every day:

That pretty much redefines the concept of "hoop-de".  China is a different place to be sure.