Tag Archives: luohu
even the beggars don’t want hong kong dollars…
Today, an elderly beggar approached me. I reached into my purse and pulled out a two-HK dollar coin. He took the coin in a soft, fingerless hand, and I wondered … Continue reading
in the aftermath of housing reform (房改)
Much of what I know about Shenzhen, I know through hearsay. How much might be confirmed through other sources — people, reports, maps, or books, for example — is a … Continue reading
hubei old village, dusk
Thursday last, I walked Old Hubei Village with Chen Ting, an architectural graduate student with an interest in the landscape of Shenzhen’s state-owned industries. A walk around the train station … Continue reading
The Cost of Business in Shenzhen
A translation of a 天涯深圳网 post, this time about a woman boss who set herself on fire to protest having her rental property revoked (罗湖文锦广场物管收回物业女老板自焚). A Woman Boss sets herself on fire … Continue reading
a facelift is only skin deep: dongmen
Universiade facelifts continue and, along certain paths in the city – the global, neoliberal, middle class paths – one walks through rubble under tarps and past construction sites. Nevertheless, several … Continue reading
street life
From a walk through one of Shenzhen’s older areas, Hubei New Village and slightly north of Dongmen.
shenzhen administrative structure
I’ve been making charts to organize my thinking. Below is an organizational chart of Shenzhen, circa 2010. Also, a simplified version of the organizational relationship between the Central government and … Continue reading
rubble
Gregory Bateson helped me learn to think about how human beings engage in (ultimately) self-destructive forms of competitive growth; Wendall Berry continues to inspire how I think about rural urbanization under … Continue reading
futures – yuanling 2
jijian kindergarten Originally uploaded by maryannodonnell even as yuanling’s factories are upgraded to retail storefronts, the old neighborhoods – especially the old courtyard residential areas – are being razed to … Continue reading
5 minutes in luohu (蔡屋围)
1 alley Originally uploaded by maryannodonnell luohu seethes contradictions, especially in the area surrounding the train station and railroad tracks, which connect shenzhen to hong kong (in the south) and … Continue reading
