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China, Taiwan One Country Two Governments is Happening

September 23, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: China, Politics, Taiwan Tagged With: Cross-Straits Relations, Kinmen, Xiamen

The Story of Ordos Kangbashi, China’s Most Famous Ghost City

August 24, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities Tagged With: Inner Mongolia, Kangbashi, Urban Development

Fengcheng: Shanghai’s Quixotic Spanish Town

August 7, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Urbanization Tagged With: Architecture Copycatting, Fengcheng Shanghai, Fengxian Shanghai, One City Nine Towns, Shanghai, Western Architecture, Western Architecture in China

China’s Disposable Cities

August 4, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Cities and Urban Development Tagged With: Changing China, China Construction, China Corruption, Demolition, Hongqiao, Shanghai

What Becomes of China’s Ghost Cities

August 1, 2014 by Wade Shepard

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Cities and Urban Development, Travel Stories Tagged With: Tiantai, Urban Development, Zhejiang Province

Nanhui, China’s Unbelievable Ghost City on the Coast

June 20, 2014 by Wade Shepard 6 Comments

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, China's Ghost Cities, Urbanization Tagged With: China Development, China Urbanization, Nanhui, Shanghai, Shanghai New Towns, Urbanization

Look Inside China’s Medical City

May 29, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Urbanization

The Myth of China’s Big and Crowded Cities

February 24, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Cities and Urban Development, Urbanization Tagged With: China Urbanization, Chongqing, Hulunbuir, Shanghai, Urban Development

Can Chinese Shopping Malls Become Centers of Culture?

February 19, 2014 by Wade Shepard 1 Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Culture and Society, Urbanization Tagged With: Changing China, Chinese Culture, Chinese Urbanization, Consumer Culture, Shopping Malls

What Life is Like Inside A Shanghai Migrant Worker Village

February 18, 2014 by Wade Shepard 1 Comment

“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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Culture and Society Tagged With: China, Inequality in China, Migrant Workers, Migrant Workers in China, Nanhui, Shanghai

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