I traveled back to a deserted new urban development in China eight years later to find what had happened to it.
China’s Ghost Cities
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Nanhui, China’s Unbelievable Ghost City on the Coast
Nanhui is a full scale, independent new city that is being completely built from scratch 60 km outside of downtown Shanghai. It is being constructed to house 800,000 people, but is currently in the ghost city stage of development: hanging somewhere between being deserted and coming alive. This is the story of what I found there.
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Listen: Wade on Radio 6PR Perth Talking About China’s Ghost Cities
I was recently interviewed by Chris Ilsley on Radio 6PR about China’s ghost cities and my new book, Ghost Cities of China, which will be out soon.
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Wade Shepard Interviewed About China’s Ghost Cities On RadioRoaming
I was interviewed yesterday by Steve Collins for the Australian based internet radio channel RadioRoaming.com. We talked about Xiamen, China, and about my new book Ghost Cities of China, which is due to come out some time soon. You can listen to the interview below or head over to RadioRoaming.com to listen to it and [...]
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Take a Virtual Tour of China’s Ghost Cities
The Western media called Zhengdong and Ordos Kangbashi desolate ghost towns that exemplified the impending fall of China, I said that they were peopled and showed potential. Now you can look at these two interactive street views and find out for yourself.
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How A 4.5 Million Person City Was Named A Ghost Town
Changzhou has recently been named one of 12 ghost cities in China, which is a rather unbecoming label for a city that has a 2,500 year history and 4.5 million people.
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The Interesting Thing About Shanghai’s Scandanavian Town
Luodian is Shanghai’s Swedish town, but there is something about it that’s different that this city’s other foreign themed developments: this place is alive.
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Shanghai’s Dutch Ghost Town
Shanghai’s One City, Nine Towns project also has a Dutch town, find out why it’s been dubbed, “Such a pity.”
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Anting: China’s German Ghost City
Anting New Town is a completely modern German city in the outskirts of Shanghai. It is also one of China’s most notorious ghost towns.
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