That’s Shanghai (specifically Pudong) in 1990 at the top (the year before Deng Xiaoping’s economic reforms) and in 2010 at the bottom, now home to 20 million people. I bet both were taken at noon.
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That can’t be 1990
From the wiki: Before 1990, Pudong was mainly farmland and countryside. In 1993, the Chinese government decided to set up a Special Economic Zone in Chuansha county, then Pudong New Area was created, and simultaneously, the land along the river bank was turned over to Pudong. The western tip of the Pudong district was designated to be the new financial hub of modern China called the Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone. Several landmark buildings were constructed in Lujiazui during the 1990s to raise the image and awareness of the area. These include the Oriental Pearl Tower, the Jin Mao Building and Shanghai World Financial Center (highest building in Shanghai, 494 m).
Sean,
That definitely was 1990…. I lived in the area for a number of years in the early 90’s and Shanghai was dirty and disgusting with utter bedlam in the streets…. I won’t say that you wouldn’t find chickens walking down a few alleys today if u were to find the right alley but it was the norm on any street during that time….
I do hope that I would still be able to find the most ridiculously awesome beef noodles in a family’s garage that opened onto an alley street. These ad hoc eateries were everywhere at that time but me thinks that they are much more rare these days.
I lived in Shanghai in 1988-89 and that’s what the city looked like. They had just announced the PuDong wold be an economic zone, but very little had been started. There was this tiny restaurant off Wulumuchi Lu called the Grape that somehow always had Canadian beer (this was nearly impossible back then unless you were at a foreign hotel, of which there were only four at the time… the Sheraton, the Hilton, the Westin and the newly opened Shangri-La Portman.) They served the most wicked eggplant dish, and the company was always raucous. I wouldn’t know Shanghai now at all, I’m sure, but I have very fond memories of the way it was. Thanks for joggin’ the ol’ noggin’.
to quote his honour, the one term mayor “you see the Chinese government taking radical dramatic action in investing in turning the ship around. And you do not see that in Western governments right now, democratically elected, and that’s because they’re afraid. And that’s not serving the greater interests of society”
apply that to the Dtes and we have as some would with hyperbole label a “final solution” and all this rabble and historical revisionism be put to rest. get a perspective on history and the human condition Sean and find a time or place you can without using your oft chosen lack of global sufferance (lets take Vancouver to the UN human rights tribunal )hobby horse and get fucking job that provides employment and not entitlement
Yeah, let’s all follow China on human rights. Your hobby horse is broke and Sean drinks your milkshake.
Put the glass down and the glasses on Farvsicle. Did someone call an air raid on your mojo as well as your ability to parse a simple paragraph coherently ? Take 2 and call pivot in the am.