Last night the State Department released around 3000 of Hillary Clinton’s private emails to its website. To my great surprise, one short email exchange was concerning this blog (thanks to James West at Mother Jones for bringing it to my attention). The topic was a blog post that I’d written on the diplomatic fiasco that…
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UK, stripped.
I finally had a chance to visit the ongoing demolition of the Expo 2010 [Shanghai World’s Fair] grounds this afternoon. Much of what I saw is destined for publication somewhere other than Shanghai Scrap. But I’d be remiss in my duties as a blogger if I didn’t post the striking state of the (once) iconic…
Some post-Expo transparency shall shine on the USA’s inexplicable pavilion secrecy.
My interest in reporting and blogging any further on the USA pavilion at Expo 2010 [Shanghai World’s Fair] ranges from none at all to zero. The Expo is over, and the consequences – if any – for how the founders of the pavilion conducted themselves in the course of securing, funding, designing, and promoting the…
8 Hours at the World’s Largest [Fastest?] Demolition Site.
Some bloggers have all of the luck. While I’m in Hong Kong, listening to a guy explain that laptop battery fire is actually a “runaway thermal event,” Shanghai Shiok!‘s Christine H. Tan has been wandering around the ghostly 5.25 sq km of prime Shanghai riverbank once home to Expo 2010 [Shanghai World’s Fair]. It’s something…
End of Expo: Why Expo 2010 Mattered
The personal and professional interests of the foreign media in China have never had much in common with the average Chinese people with whom they cover. Sometimes, this is a good and necessary thing: if the foreign media won’t cover Chinese dissidents, who will? But often, this produces absurd results that distort – for readers…
End of Expo: The ‘Americans are Potato Chip Eating Losers’ Pavilion (especially compared to us)
Considering that Expo 2010 [Shanghai World’s Fair] included exhibitions by some two-hundred countries, it’s remarkable that the six-month event was all but devoid of politics and negative depictions of other countries and cultures in the national pavilions (excepting a pretty heated film in the Palestinian pavilion). I’m not sure who or what place everybody on…
End of Expo: A Small(er) Country Perspective
Was Expo 2010 worth it? Depends, I suppose, on who you are. If you’re from a small-town in China, and your only experience of Expo was had on a blazing hot August day when you had to stand in lines for hours with several hundred thousand of your closest friends to see a half-baked exhibit…
End of Expo: Malcolm Moore, Expo Critic, Is Undeterred
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If one were to make a list of the most memorable essays, reviews, and reports written about Expo 2010 [Shanghai World’s Fair], Shanghai Expo: take a stroll down to Axis of Evil square, the cutting review of the event’s opening day by Malcolm Moore, the Daily Telegraph‘s Shanghai correspondent, would have to be placed near…
End of Expo: DeluxZilla offers some thoughts
Starting today, we’re going full-tilt at Shanghai Scrap covering (sort of) the End of Expo 2010. What this means, exactly, I’m not sure. But I do think that – even if the rest of the China-based foreign correspondent corps won’t cover it (more on that shortly) – the end of the largest World’s Fair ever…
Oh by the way: tomorrow you will be visited by the population of Boston.
Shanghai Scrap has been a bit dormant recently, what with all of the recent traveling, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten Expo 2010 [Shanghai World’s Fair]. The same cannot be said for the rest of the world’s media which, despite the fact that the Expo is, indisputably, the largest international gathering of the year, if…