Xintang and Shang Baishizhou lie northwesterly to Tangtou within the larger Baishizhou neighborhood. Where the allies widen into roads, a vibrant, bustling urbanity hints at unexpected encounters. The Baishizhou Pedestrian Commercial Street, the Baishizhou Christian Church, and inadvertent plazas, for example, speak to the social possibilities that high density street life creates.
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About Mary Ann O'Donnell
I have conducted ethnographic research in Shenzhen since 1995, aiming to make legible the shifting cultural landscapes of China’s oldest and fastest growing “Special Economic Zone.” My interests and interventions include theorizing the cultural logics of postsocialist urbanization, photography and creative documentation of the changing cityscape, and ongoing collaboration with Fat Bird Theatre, Shenzhen. More generally, I attempt to document, understand, and critically participate in the post Cold War production of industrial cosmographies, with an eye to imagining cross-culturally resonant forms of sustainable globalization.
