Xintiandi (新天地-신천지) looks bleak in contrast with the colourful Nanjing Road. But both share a similarity - they are both commercialised. While Xintiandi still delivers a piece of the old Shanghai charm, it has since been remade into a food, drink and entertainment destination. Time wastes away history but commercialism preserves history - but only the facade. The soul has long gone.
Monday, January 08, 2007
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Xintiandi (新天地-신천지) looks bleak in contrast with the colourful Nanjing Road. But both share a similarity - they are both commercialised. While Xintiandi still delivers a piece of the old Shanghai charm, it has since been remade into a food, drink and entertainment destination. Time wastes away history but commercialism preserves history - but only the facade. The soul has long gone.
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I like these pictures. 虽然是大都市，但有点孤寂的味道。
ReplyDeleteThe place actually comes to live at night. In fact, traffic was quite heavy at that place. If you feel a sense a lonliness in the pictures then perhaps it was because the person who took the pictures was "lonely" ^^
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