Beijing The South China Morning News published in Hong Kong published two full-pages on the story. CNN and BBC both flashed the crawler along the bottom of the screen that even Beijing was reporting internet slowdowns. Financial markets, trading houses, and regular businesses were virtually shutdown. The problem was simple: an earthquake in Taiwan. Undersea cables …
Month: December 2006
Tianamen Square
Bejing Brown is the color of Bejing, just as it was Shanghai, but here at least this is less a matter of the air than the stark and almost barren landscape everywhere around the city. Everything was clearer partially because we read that the weather was changing. A front was coming in from Siberia which would …
Urban Planning Exhibition
Shanghai They know they have problems here, and they are trying to get their arms wrapped around some of them. The Chinese envision Shanghai as the 21st Century New York and want to magnetize commerce here. The skyscrapers sprouting through the concrete and old town like weeds is part of that along with accommodating the surge …