“Four years ago, all mountains,” my local driver Li Wang said as we putted slowly forward in his diminutive, beaten and battered old Japanese car … [Read more...]
Why China Builds So Many Copycat Towns
I once mistakenly tried to enter through the fake door of a fake Iberian restaurant next to the fake windmills of Fengcheng, Shanghai's Spanish town. … [Read more...]
How China Populates Its Ghost Cities
Over the past twenty years China has constructed hundreds of new cities and districts, revamped thousands of towns, and thrown up an almost … [Read more...]
What Will Become of China’s New Air Pollution Consciousness?
If there’s one thing that unites the Chinese population it’s air pollution: it’s something that affects almost everyone. Although it may seem strange … [Read more...]
A Wake Up Call from the New Chinese Counterculture
I leaned back in my seat, closed my eyes, and fell asleep. The slight vibrations sent up from the tracks below sort of rocked me. There are few things … [Read more...]
While China Destroys its Historic Buildings Taiwan Saves Them
We're told that China has a 5,000 year old civilization, but from walking down the streets of most cities the country appears to have been founded … [Read more...]
Batam: Portrait of a Free Trade Zone
Batam is a free trade zone, and all free trade zones are the same. They are artificial places, created through bi-lateral governmental decrees drawn … [Read more...]
5 Chinese Ghost Cities that Came Alive
Reports of the world's most populated country having tens of millions of empty apartments and dozens of cities without people sounds like a sick twist … [Read more...]
Jeepneys in the Philippines
The streets of the Philippines are dominated by brazenly colored, heavily ornamented, black exhaust smoke belching, military jeep inspired vehicles. … [Read more...]
11 Chinese Cities That Are Built on What Was Once Water
Virgin urban construction land in China is like a carcass in a pit of hyenas. The feeding frenzy to gobble up and lay claim to as much develop-able … [Read more...]
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