Too Square to be Hip
A narcissist's guide to travel and culture
Landing at the Hong Kong International Airport built on a large swath of reclaimed land off Lantau Island in Hong Kong, it felt as if I had entered into a tropical paradise. The hills were filled with dense green subtropical vegetation and the air had a wet humid feel that lingered around. After a cold …
I visited China back in 2012, long before the election of Chinese strongman Xi Jinping. At that time I views the Asian country as a ripe candidate for a slow transition to democracy. Clearly I was wrong, the formally open and transforming Chinese panda has once again begun to shut its doors to the outside …
China’s economic powerhouse, Shanghai is more then the sum of its skyscrapers. Beneath the thin veil of glass and steel lies a truly unique world metropolis. Thus when one evokes the name Shanghai, an image of tall slender skyscraper clustered on the Bund river appears. Shanghai is much the modern city that you would imagine …
The treasures of the old imperial kingdom are buried far inland, away from the modern center of power of the modern Chinese state. Buried and forgotten it lied in waiting for its day of discovery. Although many had heard the stories of an ancient mausoleum buried near Xian, it was a simple farmer tending to …
