Slog - Comments on China Today http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today China in the 20th century: China in the 21st century: Both images are about self-empowerment. The first image, self-power is increased by the absolute affirmation of the Little Red Book; in the second image, self-power is increased by learning English. The more English you learn, the stronger you are as a person, and the stronger you are as a person, then the stronger China is as a state in the world system. The New Yorker has a short article on this second, new wave of self-empowerment. I offer four striking passages: 1 Li Yang is China’s Elvis of English, perhaps... Copyright 2008 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:59:27 -0800 Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:15:45 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Charlton Heston And your point is?

]]> Charlton Heston http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today#c1005221 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today#c1005221 Books Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:10:23 -0800 Comment by Fnarf If you want to see China today, pick up the new National Geographic. It will destroy your mind. Seriously. Everything you've heard about China is true, only 1,000 times more so. Entire cities of millions of people where everybody makes buttons, almost all the buttons in the world! Or paintings! There's a city where 60% of all the world's oil paintings are made. Shanghai ain't the half of it; Chongqing is 31 million people now. They're going to have more cars than the US by 2025, and are DOUBLING coal and oil consumption every fifteen years. 50,000 miles of expressways. Vast new subdivisions that look like Levittown. Erica Barnett's worst nightmare, in other words.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today#c1005237 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today#c1005237 Books Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:23:59 -0800 Comment by VDD He's doing bad advertising.

]]> VDD http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today#c1005274 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today#c1005274 Books Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:58:07 -0800 Comment by Cold Hard Reality Yeah, but it's not going to be sustainable. Of course, when they collapse in the energy crisis, we'll be fucked too, but hey, at least no one is going to be a "winner" when everything goes to shit.

]]> Cold Hard Reality http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today#c1005876 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/china_today#c1005876 Books Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:15:45 -0800