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Taking the Airport Link Line and Thoughts on Suburban Rail
A few weeks ago, I took the latest addition to the Shanghai metro — the Airport Link Line. As the name suggests, it connects Shanghai’s...
Michael Gan
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Shanghai's Forgotten Metropolitan Plan
Shanghai has seen its fair share of ambitious urban planning proposals. In the 1990s, the establishment of Pudong New Area transformed...
Michael Gan
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Reimagining the Urban Hinterland: Fuzhou's Fudao
I spent my Chinese New Year visiting my grandmother in Fuzhou. Fuzhou is often described as "city within mountains, mountains within...
Michael Gan
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Quanzhou: Emporium of the World
The pagodas of Kaiyuan Temple, Quanzhou (Xinhua) In the nearly 300 years between 1100 and the late 1300s, Quanzhou (or Zayton, as it was...
Sheng Mingming
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