Shanghai and London are exchanging subway poetry. “Under the deal, which took years to thrash out, the London Underground – which has displayed poems for 20 years – is displaying lines from some of China’s great wordsmiths: Li Bai, Du Pu and Po Chu-i. Next month the mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, will launch a similar programme in Shanghai with Wordsworth’s Daffodils, Blake’s Auguries of Innocence, Jamie’s The Blue Boat and Bullock’s Butterfly.”