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Datong and building a new old city
Building a new ancient city wall
Tearing down the recent past
Creating the new past
New ancient dream town, locals, and foreign guests.
Datong, Shanxi, April 2014.
Labels: Chinese characteristics, fakes, lessons from China, Shanxi
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Saturday, June 14, 2014
How to devalue a $3.2 million property?
It all happened in two days
while the property from where the pictures were taken
was built in one year.
Building the slum house took only a few hours.
Spot the nice window below.
Negotiations started: the window got closed.
More beautification, negotiations ongoing.
Negotiations failed: Phase 2 begins.
It is still not clear what phase 2 means:
Space for water tanks, flat-plate solar collector,
or simply 2 new rooms to be rented out?
Negotiations resumed:
The 2nd floor construction is getting some paint.
The view since more than one month:
Negotiations ongoing but ...
Now ask about building standards, hutong policies, and the rule of law.
In sum, time to leave.
Beijing, May 2013.
Labels: Beijing, China, Chinese characteristics, Chinese dream, failed governance, Hutong life, lessons from China, public affairs, rules and regulation

