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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…
[Perhaps it was too much sun. In any case, the title of this post has been changed on the suggestion of several readers and one commentator.] Early this afternoon a companion and I climbed the 367 steps to the top of Shanghai’s Lupu Bridge where, 550 meters (1800 feet) at a still undetermined elevation 100…
The January 30 issue of the New Republic includes a short essay on China by Nathan Glazer, one of the great American intellectuals of the last sixty years (really, he is, and deservedly so). It is written on the occasion of Glazer’s first trip to China, and includes his impressions of Shanghai and Beijing. I…