Absurdity, Allegory and China

It usually takes me a bit of time to go through my photos after a trip to my favorite site in Beijing, the CCTV Bldg. project (or what I sometimes refer to as metaphor central) on the East Third Ring Road. In the last few days I have finally gotten around to looking through what [...]

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There is a perennial incompleteness that haunts mainland Chinese cities, second and third tier cities as well as the nation’s capital. In the foreground of the above photo you can see scaffolding, green construction mesh,  and the top of a tent where migrant workers live in the very heart of the Central Business District, across [...]

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In case there is anyone left on the planet who actually holds out any hope of substantive ethnic autonomy in western China, you need to take a look at China’s railroad plans, which includes a translation of an interview by the German edition of Spiegel news magazine with a member of the Chinese Academy of [...]

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