Great Nat'l Geographic article on China's boomtowns

Morrigoon · 04-03-2008, 02:27 PM

Found this off boingboing:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0706/feature4/

It's a fascinating piece on basically an industrial revolution in certain Chinese provinces. Really sounds like history repeating itself, I'll be interested to see how China's growth plays out over the next few decades.

Eliza Hodgkins 1812 · 04-03-2008, 04:08 PM

I, for one, welcome our future Chinese overlords. Heh. Saw this referenced on BoingBoing,as well, and I'm looking forward to the read.

Stan4dSteph · 04-04-2008, 01:07 AM

The pollution there must be hideous.

Morrigoon · 04-04-2008, 09:39 AM

Well, it is very reminiscent of burgeoning industry in 1800's America, so I'd tend to agree with you there, Steph.

Kind of interesting watching history repeat itself in our own time though.

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Morrigoon I throw stones at houses Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Location: Location Posts: 9,534	Well, it is very reminiscent of burgeoning industry in 1800's America, so I'd tend to agree with you there, Steph. Kind of interesting watching history repeat itself in our own time though. __________________ http://bash.org/?top "It is useless for sheep to pass a resolution in favor of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion." -- William Randolph Inge
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