The men’s room in the passenger station in Qujing, Yunnan Province will be familiar to anyone who has answered the call of nature in China’s innumerable other provincial bus stations. Dim fluorescent lights give a clinical blue pallor to the bleary-eyed, fidgety travelers waiting their turn for the urinals and stalls lining either wall.
This post is about one of China’s most unique urban spaces, the so-called “village in the city” (城中村), and some personal observations …
This being a China blog, I don’t intend to dwell on non-China topics, but since I went through the trouble to establish …
One of the most valuable methods for studying urban spaces that I picked up in graduate school was masses and voids. It’s a …
Consider the view that greets the Mao Zedong hanging from Tiananmen Gate each morning in Beijing. On a clear day, the Great Helmsman …