It had been a long day. It must have been nearing midnight and we sat in the back of a pickup truck with a group of Taiwanese commercial fishermen. … [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...]
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...]
Mountains And Rivers Without End: Zhangjiajie Forest And Wulingyuan UNESCO Site
They walked through a thick, blazing green pine forest, looking at scenery that they've only ever seen before in paintings. They climbed up past … [Read more...]
