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"If you are under 25, literally you have never had a bad day in your life. Ever since you were born, every day has been a better day than the day before," entrepreneur Yue-Sai Kan says.

"They know there is no limit to what they can accomplish as long as they work very hard," she adds.

Annie Wang, novelist and social commentator, is the ultimate networker on the Shanghai scene.

"People want to take this opportunity to enjoy their womanhood because they have seen their mothers suffer or have sacrificed so much for their children," she says.

"A woman like me -- I want to go to a Western society, I want to be liberated, I want to be able to do the things I want to do!"

For years, Wang wrote a Sex and the City-type column -- the People's Republic of Desire. She found young women torn between wanting a faithful husband, and tasting the new fruits of freedom.

"Some people tell me I want to be wilder than the westerners -- so that shows I am cooler than westerners if I can do things they don't dare to do, and I am even more cutting edge," she says.

Amid industrialists and the oilers of the wheels, the party is full of multi-lingual young women running publishing or marketing businesses, often representing top-flight Western brands.

The guests include former Olympic sprint swimming champion Joey Zhuang, who now heads her own media firm. There is nothing, it seems, standing in her way.

But can it all really be this easy?