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From Rural to Urban: Transition in Harmony
The high-speed bullet train–“Harmony”–between Shanghai and Beijing, passes through a countryside that is in transition from small, rural farms worked by a handful of farmers,with minimal machinery, to...
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Shanghai Airpocalypse
It is becoming a cliché to refer to China’s ongoing battle with air pollution as an “airpocalypse“, but I struggle with finding a more accurate term to describe the almost daily grayish-brown haze...
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Air Quality? It’s All Relative, Apparently
Last week, the Air Quality Index in Beijing stayed at the top-level of “Hazardous,” exceeding the maximum reading of 500 for six straight days, but the news wasn’t all bad, according to China Daily...
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Day Seventy: Fresh Fruit
Residents from the adjacent ‘New Village” housing complex buy oranges off the back of a truck on Pucheng Lu, in the Pudong New Area of Shanghai. Farmers from surrounding areas will drive to the city...
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Day Seventy-One: Homebound
After a clear, sunny day, yesterday, with an AQI hovering just under 200, today broke overcast and wet, scrubbing the air to an acceptable AQI of 70. Despite the fresh air, the cool, wet weather kept...
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Day Seventy-seven: Fishing
Shanghai’s warm spell is in its fourth day and temperatures climbed into the mid-70’s bringing out flowers and fishermen. An afternoon walk down some previously untraveled streets brought me to...
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Day Ninety: Coal Floats
Every Sunday there is a steady stream of empty barges making their way up the Huangpu River; every Monday they come racing back downstream burdened with coal bound for the power plants and factories...
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Day 106: Sprinkler Men
The public landscaping in Shanghai is quite extensive and very well done; luxury apartment compounds, high rise office towers, parks and Pudong’s wide boulevards are extensively planted and very well...
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Day 107: Clean Sweep
I had not intended on a ‘theme’ for this week’s pictures, but on my way home, today, I walked past this man fixing his bicycle seat and took this shot which seemed to fit nicely with this week’s...
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