Sarah Williams Goldhagen writes in praise of the Chinese built environment:
China’s modernization is often portrayed as one step toward its eventual Westernization. The facts on the ground suggest a much more interesting phenomenon. The Chinese are not prospecting a path toward Western ways but, having borrowed, felicitously and infelicitously, from the West, are now modernizing with means and results that are thoroughly Chinese.
(Photo: From the Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Center by Flickr user HBarrison.)
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