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Yiwu: What Globalization Actually Looks Like
This was originally posted as a photo essay to Twitter in July 2025, after visiting Yiwu for the first time.
If you find this as interesting as I did and would like to see Yiwu for yourself, I will be leading a weekend immersion tour to Yi...
It Takes Four Generations: Demographic Replacement and the Statistical Legacy of China's Development
Back in the year 2006, according to China’s Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 43% of Chinese workers over the age of 65 (and 67% of women) had never attended school.1 Another 47% had only a primary school education.2 3
MOHRS...
The Business of Beaches and Land Reclamation: Failure and Success on Hainan's Coast
This essay is adapted from a Twitter thread original posted on April 15, 2026. This is the first essay in my Hainan Province trip series, which I took over 10 days in March 2026. It was my first time properly exploring a part of China I’d s...
China Is Not Pulling Up the Ladder
Foreword: Today is a departure from my regular China social ethnographic content. If you’re only subscribed for taxicab interviews and China travel content, just sit tight; more of that will be coming in good time. But today, I’m going to w...
China Taxicab Chronicles 10: Exploring Didi Rideshare Saturation in Hangzhou
This essay is an edit of a tweet originally posted to Twitter on September 9, 2025. It has been edited lightly for long-essay format.
I don’t usually get into a taxis in China with the intention of discussing a certain topic, or inv...
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