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Cyberpunk II

Of all the Asian cities I’ve travelled to, I was surprised to find that Chongqing, of all places, felt the most cyberpunk.  (This skyscraper with the nightmarish animated chick & egg to “celebrate” the Year of the Rooster certainly contributed.)  I … Continue reading

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Seals 

The Chongqing Guotai Grand Theatre building has a cool design using a lattice of beams whose ends look like Chinese seals.

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Wraparound

This huge video screen wrapped around the edge of the building.  Some ads used the angled edge as a design element — like a sidebar — whereas other ads like this one just treated it as an entire screen.

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Sincere

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Hawker

This woman was walking around the street, selling scrawny chickens dangling from a stick.  Ah, China.

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Museum

Right across People’s Square from the Hall of the People is the Three Gorges Museum.  I was pretty Gorged out, so I hurried through the Gorges and Dam exhibits. Yet more unfortunate taxidermy made it look like the animals had seen … Continue reading

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Auditorium

Towering over People’s Square is a huge auditorium called the Great Hall of the People. The architecture was inspired by Beijing’s Temple of Heaven.It’s so photogenic, I had trouble finding a bad angle.

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Cacophony

Early morning in People’s Square — between the Great Hall of the People and the Three Gorges Museum —  you can see half a dozen different groups of people practicing dance routines or flag routines or Tai Chi or whatever, … Continue reading

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Mountain

Chongqing is known at “The Mountain City” and (as my calves can testify) sits atop a hilly peninsula.  It reminded me a bit of San Francisco in that respect.  Along with Beijing, Shanghai and Tianjin it is one of China’s four direct … Continue reading

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