China Segment

Literally millions of people in large cities like Shanghai and Beijing are going back to their home towns for Chinese New Year (otherwise known as Spring Festival 春节 chūnjíe). Some of them are seasonal workers, but many of them moved here years ago, got married and have a kid, but the requirement to go [...]

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Everyday these chaps risk their lives and work themselves skinny for the glory of Shanghai. I suppose they don’t do it for the glory, exactly, but modest pay and a life away from the farms. They are looked down on by the locals, excluded from most of Shanghai’s expensive lifestyle and work in [...]

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I really want my sidewalk back. In China, the public realm is the barber shop, the general store, the parking lot, the urinal, the ad space, and even the factory and repair shop. I don’t exactly know what these guys were making, but it appears similar to the frame that goes on the [...]

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Well the holiday has been shortened this year from essentially a week to a long weekend. Hopefully it won’t be too mad out there on the highways getting out of town. Can’t be any worse than before, can it?

The flags are out and hopefully this will be the last show of patriotic [...]

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