HAINAN: THE STREETS
Jul. 8th, 2010 11:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogOne thing about any trip to mainland China is that often, the view outside the tourbus is just as interesting – sometimes more so – than the actual tourism sites they take you to see.
Outside of the big urban centers like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, this is what a lot of China looks like – dusty buildings, sun-bleached signs, big piles of of stuff on the side of the road and lots of people sitting around waiting for someone to either buy it or hire them to do something with it – assemble it, move it, arrange it, whatever.
I don’t have any special insights into this. All I can say for sure is that there’s more to China than politics, totalitarianism and the facade they put forward at big international events like the Olympics or the Shanghai Expo.
Up next: the remainders!
Street life,
This is dF
Outside of the big urban centers like Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, this is what a lot of China looks like – dusty buildings, sun-bleached signs, big piles of of stuff on the side of the road and lots of people sitting around waiting for someone to either buy it or hire them to do something with it – assemble it, move it, arrange it, whatever.
I don’t have any special insights into this. All I can say for sure is that there’s more to China than politics, totalitarianism and the facade they put forward at big international events like the Olympics or the Shanghai Expo.
Up next: the remainders!
Street life,
This is dF
