A rendering of the arts complex being designed by MAD Architects in Harbin (via Architects in China, Building the American Dream - NYTimes.com)
SNAPSHOTS OF CHINA, FROM EYES OF WANDERLUST
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A rendering of MAD Architects’ proposed project in Chongqing (via Architects in China, Building the American Dream - NYTimes.com)
人大代表 (via Why Yang’s Photos)
Is China Ripe for a Revolution? - NYTimes.com
“The dominant tenor of Western press coverage is that the Communist Party is finally receiving its comeuppance — for its corruption, for its misrule in the countryside, for its indifference to human rights and democracy. And below the surface, usually unspoken, lurks a deeply felt sense of schadenfreude — a desire to see the Communist Party toppled from power by its own people.
“But we should be careful about what we wish for…. Given the precarious state of our economy today, and America’s nearly existential reliance on our trade with China in particular, one wonders: for all of our principled condemnation of China’s government on political and human rights grounds, if it were actually faced with a revolution from within — even one led by a coalition calling for greater democracy — how likely is it that we, too, wouldn’t, in the end, find ourselves hoping for that revolution to fail?”
- Stephen R. Platt, writing for The New York Times
Hong Kong in the rain (via The Inspiration Grid : Design Inspiration, Illustration, Typography, Photography, Art, Architecture & More)
One of the world’s craziest intersections ever, in Causeway Bay. (via The Inspiration Grid : Design Inspiration, Illustration, Typography, Photography, Art, Architecture & More)
“Lanterns on display for the Chinese Lantern Festival on February 6, 2012 in Beijing, China.” (via Chinese Lantern Festival 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic)
More photos are available on The Atlantic’s “In Focus” blog.
“Tourists walk through an alley decorated with red lanterns for the Lantern Festival in Beijing, on February 6, 2012.” (via Chinese Lantern Festival 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic)
“Villagers perform a dragon dance to pray for good luck and celebrate the upcoming Chinese Lantern Festival in Taizhou, Zhejiang province, on February 1, 2012.” (via Chinese Lantern Festival 2012 - In Focus - The Atlantic)
"In our next life, let’s not do business. Let’s be government officials instead."
� quoted from one of the many Chinese interviewed by Leslie T. Chang in “Working Titles,” her Letter from China published in the February 6, 2012 New Yorker (via The New Yorker)
"Success means that you can live the way you want, that you can be yourself and not the person others want you to be."
� quoted from one of the many Chinese interviewed by Leslie T. Chang in “Working Titles,” her Letter from China published in the February 6, 2012 New Yorker (via The New Yorker)
Bonnie Tsui, author of American Chinatown: A People’s History of Five Neighborhoods, interviews the manager of a Chinatown career center on Kearny Street in SF, along with some of her clients:
[L]ately, Yu has been seeing a shift; rather than coming, her clients have been going—in pursuit of what might be called the Chinese Dream.
“Now the American Dream is broken…”
Chinatowns seem to be fading, and @AtlanticCities explores some of the reasons why:
“As China grows… Chinatowns will fall.”
“The age of big cities as entry point and holding tank for immigrants seems to be ending, if not over.”
(via Why Chinatowns Are Shrinking - Neighborhoods - The Atlantic Cities)
Manuscript | Paul Cocksedge Studio | Beijing Design Week Opening Ceremony
