Hub of Culture

Always in the parks..and it took me way too long to find this breath of fresh air. What a sweet building ay? And Shanghai is just full of little modern architectural treasures like this. But what is so fascinating is that it also bears so much the birthmarks of it's western colonizers. This was their little capital back in the 20s and 30s, and so alongside the dashing post-modern scrapers, are the contrasting constructions of Europeans and Americans, as you can see the little clock tower in this photo. Truly, the present architecture rather looms over the presence of the former period.

Back on the Parallel Path

February 6th 2010
"It almost feels like my previous stint in China is flowing seamlessly into this one, but it's as though I have suddenly transformed into a being with twice the capacity for cultural acceptance, twice the capacity for communication, and who has suddenly rather fresh eyes to see a place that, I now realize, I had gotten so used to that it made me blind to it." So I articulated to my great, new f ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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