Articles

China’s electronics industry went from copying the West to being a global leader in innovation. One of the ways that this has happened is through the country’s unique system of manufacturing, dubbed “shanzhai.”

China’s economy did not collapse, the country’s stock market is fine — in spite of the hype.

China’s ghost cities: for real or the invention of a Western media that refuses to understand how China works?

Inefficient border crossings, corrupt immigration officers, racial profiling and harassment, and nothing but cheap Chinese junk — so this is the future of commerce on the New Silk Road?

Urumqi is a city that appears to be under siege, and in many ways it is.

Hiding the pollution doesn’t make it go away.

Sure, malls are a ubiquitous, mono-cultural, expensive, and haphazard way to develop an urban area but they serve a vital social function in China that we’d probably miss if it wasn’t there.

A major shift has occurred in China, as blissful ignorance has been replaced by outrage over the country’s air quality.

As China’s so-called ghost cities fill up they are forgotten by a mainstream international media that is hungry for sensational stories, not rational takes on what is surely the most expansive urbanization movement in human history. Here are five new cities in China that have filled up with people and commerce since being heralded as ghost towns.