Pudong, Shanghai

Overcrowding in the Ball of Death

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February 27th 2011
Photos: …..the figures from last year's census in China are still being analysed but it seems pretty clear that Shanghai's population has been underestimated & is almost certainly over 23 million, probably about a million or so more than the total population of Australia. It's not difficult to see that it's on a different scale t ... 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