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What the Irish Water Protests Are All About, or How I Got Beat Up While Reporting on #Right2Water

January 10, 2015 by Evan McCaffrey Leave a Comment

ai"Which side are you on boys, which side are you on?" Before going into my experiences with the Irish Water Protest, let me first explain what all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Current Events, Ireland, Protests Tagged With: #Right2Water, Dublin, Gardai, Ireland, Police, politics, protest, Sinn Fein

Stampede on the Bund: An Eyewitness Account of Shanghai’s New Year’s Tragedy

January 9, 2015 by Andrew J. Shainker 1 Comment

I wonder what it would feel like to suffocate to death? I could imagine fear and panic would engulf your entire being until blackness falls upon your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Current Events Tagged With: bund, China, new years, Shanghai

What South Koreans Say About “The Interview”

January 6, 2015 by Arthur Fern 2 Comments

Weeks after its debut, Sony's The Interview still garners wide attention in the news and on social media. Quite a grand spectacle has been made over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, North Korea, South Korea Tagged With: interview, south korea

Jeepneys in the Philippines

January 3, 2015 by Wade Shepard 5 Comments

The streets of the Philippines are dominated by brazenly colored, heavily ornamented, black exhaust smoke belching, military jeep inspired vehicles. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Articles, Bus Travel, Culture and Society, Philippines, Transportation Tagged With: Baguio, Jeepneys, Manila, Philippines Culture, Philippines Transportation, Top Feature

11 Chinese Cities That Are Built on What Was Once Water

December 22, 2014 by Wade Shepard Leave a Comment

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...]

Filed Under: Articles, China, Lists, Urbanization Tagged With: China Development, Land Reclamation

Cosplay in China

October 10, 2014 by Mitch Blatt Leave a Comment

Throngs of high school and college girls were lined up for half an hour or longer to see men and women dressed like cartoon characters. When the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Art and Music, Articles, China, Culture and Society Tagged With: Chinese Culture, cosplay, Nanjing

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

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