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Monthly Archives: March 2017
the shenzhen metro museum…
accessibility
So yesterday I flew from Hong Kong to Ithaca, NY via the new Shekou Cruise Ship Terminal. There just as one walks in to the waiting room stood an international sim card vending machine. It holds phone sim cards for Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, the United States and the Philippines. There are also internet sim cards for Europe, United Arab Emirates, India, Hong Kong, and Macau. So yes, this is a pretty reliable map of what are now know as “the one belt, one road countries”.
the new shekou cruise ship terminal…
…is big and far from the subway station that so usefully served the old ferry terminal. And yes, hidden behind reclaimed construction sites, the new terminal embodies how Qianhai–as a place and eponymous ambition–is reshaping the coast. Again.
red earth, red river. yunan.
Visiting the Honghe Vineyard in Mi Le, Yunan, I am reminded how necessary a full sense life is; yes, it is beautiful here, but even more than visual, this is a beauty of open ears, nose, and mouth. Birds sing, flowers entice, spices and herbs tempt the tongue, and the breeze lightly touches open skin. Yet, in the middle of it all, my guide points to an “urban village.” The form has been generalized, something else that we have learned from Shenzhen and Guangzhou. Can there be meaningful rural life when urban consumption of the rural has pre-empted actual villages as the presumed mode of living, even here.
in hong kong, thinking prd
introducing handshake 302
We are slow, but we move forward. Here’s Handshake’s most recent intro-PDF:
Shenzhen Noted 