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Keeping the Masses Busy – Puzzles
The question was posed to us with a half-chuckle, by a portly man plucking meat from a pot of boiling oil with chopsticks:
“In France,” he said, “They have the same streets for hundreds of years, but here we remake them every year! Why do you think so?”
“Maybe the government needs to keep people...
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In the Shadow of the Great Wall
Totally Awesome Picture of the week 52
“Makin it civilized, makin it fine, oh, we’re building a wall, so they can knock down mine!”
- verse one of the contemporary workers tune Ode to the Hutongs
A renaissance of blue-collar work-related musical creativity seems to be occurring throughout China. “Along with spreading capitalistic tendencies for...
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Inheritance: a fable
A man, dressed formally from the belt down, casually above, strolls slowly down the street. He carries his young son in his arms. Soon they come upon a groaning, jerking machine, and they stop to watch as it scoops rubble from the sidewalk.
“Look, son,” says the father. “One day that could...
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Dear Yichang
Dear Yichang,
When first described to us, our boss said you were like “an old wild west town.” We didn’t believe it. It was hard to see past the cement, glass and general greyness that filled every visible inch – that is until a week or so ago when we saw that big...
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When in China… Stop and Stare at Everything
While it is well documented that Chinese people tend to gape at foreigners, it is unfair to leave it at that – they stare indiscriminately at everyone and everything (we once witnessed an entire street of people, ourselves included, gawking bewilderedly at a Chinese man in short, pastel shorts). As you can see,...
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China’s Route to the Future
While perhaps neglecting common sense, this Yichang man is actually obeying traffic laws. That is, he’s driving on the right-hand side of the road. Unfortunately, he ran into a rough patch of concrete and lodged his rear wheel between two slabs of what was recently a smooth section of road. In...
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