A few weeks ago I posted some images (“A Cavalcade of under-construction Expo 2010 Pavilions“) from a few of my December visits to the intensely busy Expo 2010 grounds. Readers – or viewers, in this case – seemed quite interested in them, so I’m going to follow-up on that post with another set of images…
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Meanwhile, at the Polish Expo 2010 Pavilion …
Apropos of really nothing, a photo of workers burnishing the exterior of the Polish Expo 2010 pavilion late this afternoon. After a very early morning spent viewing the triumph of truth and justice over evil, I spent most of the afternoon down at the exceptionally busy Expo 2010 site. And, within the next day or…
US State Department Inspector General Refers Complaint Against USA Pavilion at Expo 2010 to Secretary of State’s Executive Director.
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Shanghai Scrap has viewed documents revealing that last week the US Department of State’s Office of Inspector General [OIG] forwarded a request for investigation into the Department’s stewardship of the USA Pavilion at Expo 2010 to the US Secretary of State’s Executive Director. The complaint requests a “full and fair recounting of the events that…
Lies, Damned Lies, and the US Pavilion at Expo 2010.
Based upon queries of my blog, and queries from US media outlets, it seems that US reporters are finally taking an interest in Expo 2010 and the oft-troubled project to build a US pavilion (Shanghai Scrap reporting on the issue, here). As for the latter topic, the interest is overdue: as of January 4, 2010,…
A Cavalcade of (under-construction) Expo 2010 Pavilions
Over the last two weeks, I’ve made several trips down to the sprawling 5.28 sq km Expo 2010 grounds on the Huangpu riverbanks. For my American readers, this revelation likely doesn’t generate much excitement – even if I tell you that – in scale and historical importance – Expo 2010 is designed to evoke and…
The lines are already forming …
On Friday I had the opportunity to tour both sides of the sprawling, 5.28 square km Expo 2010 site. I’ve been down there before, but only to individual pavilions on discrete trips, and seen it from above, but I must admit that I never really appreciated the shear size of it until I had the…
The Bund: Renovated, and then even more renovated.
As documented in various places on this blog, I have been a fan, critic, and victim of the massive Shanghai-wide renovation undertaken in advance of the Expo 2010. On the fan side of things, I give a big thumb’s up to the new subway lines, and – from an urban beautification standpoint – the renovation…
Are translators really so expensive? Thoughts on English using.
A couple of years ago a Chinese friend who works for a large Chinese state-owned company called to ask if I could look at several pages of English that she’d translated for her superiors. I asked her to send it over, gave it a quick once-over, and sent it back. Basic marketing materials, nothing too…
East Seward Road Elegy: Shanghai’s War Against Its Architectural Heritage
[UPDATE 10/19 – Paul French of the excellent China Rhyming blog just posted some heartbreaking history and images of the White Horse Inn, on the former Ward Road, which was taken down during the recent Hongkou demolitions. ] [UPDATE 10/22 – Leading the pack on Hongkou-related news, Paul French just posted a very fine item…
Exclusive Shanghai Scrap Interview: The Guy Hanging Outside My Window
While the rest of Shanghai’s media and blogs have been concerned with ethnic uprisings, military parades, and trade wars, Shanghai Scrap has maintained an unwavering focus on the ongoing renovation of his building’s exterior in advance of Expo 2010. As many others have noted, Shanghai is spending an inordinate amount of money to clean-up the…