Two giant signs separate the two Chinas. Or, more precisely, the two governments of the one China. One is on Xiamen Island, PRC, the other on an … [Read more...]
The Story of Ordos Kangbashi, China’s Most Famous Ghost City
Ordos Kangbashi is a city that shocked the world. It shocked the world not because of something it had, but because of what it didn't: people. This is … [Read more...]
Fengcheng: Shanghai’s Quixotic Spanish Town
There was something Quixotic about that place, which was perhaps appropriate as I was standing before a row of giant, mock windmills. They used to … [Read more...]
China’s Disposable Cities
Throughout China, the old is being replaced by the new and the new is being replaced by the newer in a continuous round of entropy that has virtually … [Read more...]
What Becomes of China’s Ghost Cities
It was a normal outlaying area of a normal small city in the east of China. There was nothing about it that a passerby would find overtly peculiar, … [Read more...]
Nanhui, China’s Unbelievable Ghost City on the Coast
The first thing that many visitors to Shanghai will see is a ghost city. If you look down out of the window when flying into Shanghai's Pudong airport … [Read more...]
Look Inside China’s Medical City
China Medical City (CMC) is a place whose name is in no way a misnomer. In 2005, a 30 square kilometer area north just of the Yangtze River between … [Read more...]
The Myth of China’s Big and Crowded Cities
I looked out over a flat, wide-open landscape of farmland, fallow fields, and dirt lots stretching far into the distance. A small brick shack was to … [Read more...]
Can Chinese Shopping Malls Become Centers of Culture?
Imagine if you didn't just go to the mall to shop. Imagine if shopping malls were places full of museum-like exhibits, performances, cultural shows, … [Read more...]
What Life is Like Inside A Shanghai Migrant Worker Village
“They are like deserters from village life and lonely birds in the city.” -Li Jiuxin, Tsinghua University Walking on the scaffolding stacked up the … [Read more...]
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