Traces of Progress: Aesthetic Understanding
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The Plight of Clean Propaganda
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 42 The latest wave of “dirty” products – this being the season of Tainted Milk – has prompted the Central government to ask local governments all over the country to issue a plea to their people: “Help us clean up our image.” With hopes of feeding off the unbelievable [...]
Traces of Progress: Employee Rest Areas
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Traces of Progress: Accessible Water
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WASTE DISPOSAL CAMPAIGN DEEMED EFFECTIVE
Yichang, CHINA – As part of a recent campaign to improve general cleanliness, the small city of Yichang has displayed a series of informative posters aimed at educating residents in proper waste disposal. In one poster, a friendly cartoon Earth can be seen directing from atop a toilet as two citizens contribute to a growing [...]
Let the Street Cleaners do Their Job
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 39 “Hello! Where you from? USA? Hello! USA do very well. Number two! USA number 2! China number 1! Many, many gold medal. Many many! China win Olympic Games! Go China! USA number 2 in Olympic Games. USA do very good! China maybe have a little more people so [...]
Traces of Progress: Breaking New Ground
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The Night Light
Totally Awesome Picture of the Week 37 Hello old man standing in your underwear in what used to be a restaurant where we ate dinner only once. Yes, only once, because the food was bad and the service worse. Terrible, in fact. We were the only customers that night and the drunk teenage wait-staff took [...]
IT IS DOGGED THAT DOES IT!
CHINA – Anticipating enormous cultural gains through the success of this summer’s Olympic games, school officials all over the nation have begun the enormous task of training the youth to succeed in the competitive atmosphere of the future. As is customary, the process is a highly controlled regimen of both verbal and mental repetition of [...]
Traces of Progress: Carpooling
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Very Fashion China 5: The Bowl Cut
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Traces of Progress: Laying the Track
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The Chinese Workers (Part I): a poem
Heigh-ho, Heigh-hoIt’s home from work we go… But in the morn we won’t head backThey say the machine is going slackThe boss has gone and shut the doorOur cheap-o toys won’t sell no more Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho It’s not to work we go… All those kiddies in the foreign landsWon’t have our toys to fill their [...]
Nov 15, 2008 | Categories: China, Poetry, Yichang | Tags: a poem, chinese factories, economics, economy, globalization, heigh-ho, Poetry, seven dwarfs, social commentary, unemployment | Leave A Comment »