VOL.01
It was the most densely populated place on Earth for most of the 20th century, where a room cost the equivalent of US$6 per month in high rise buildings that belonged to no country. In this urban enclave, “a historical accident”, law had no place. Drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes lived and worked alongside kindergartens, [...]
Blind dates are bad enough but when your own parents take to the streets and advertise your eternal loneliness on public noticeboards, that’s when things probably start to get really bleak. In a sort of online dating nightmare come to life, every weekend in Shanghai at the north end of People’s Park, up to a [...]
Taking counterfeiting to a whole new level… Paris in China In the outskirts of Shanghai stands a fake Eiffel Tower overlooking a replica of the Champ de Mars and rows of Parisian townhouses. This is not Disneyland in China, this is the gated community of Tianducheng, built in 2007 by real estate develepors Zhejiang Guangsha [...]
You might want to check the attic to make sure you don’t have any ceramic vases lying around that could be worth oh say, £51 million. This is the price that a vase from 18th century China fetched for after an unsuspecting brother and sister decided to hawk it at an auction in west [...]
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