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...]
Stampede on the Bund: An Eyewitness Account of Shanghai’s New Year’s Tragedy
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...]
What South Koreans Say About “The Interview”
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...]
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...]
Cosplay in China
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...]
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...]
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