Why are the Chinese so devoted to knockoffs?
That’s the subject of this interesting article in the International Herald Tribune. The article begins with a crazy-sounding anecdote — apparently, a property developer in southern China built a...
View ArticleDoes this Chinese cabbie love Louis Vuitton? Or hate them?
From a faithful student correspondent (who won’t be named so that Louis Vuitton’s famously aggressive lawyers won’t try to seize his camera), comes this picture taken from the back of a taxi tooling...
View ArticleShanzhai skyscrapers
Kal and I have a new post today up at the Freakonomics blog, this time on an close replica in the Chinese city of Chongqing of a building designed by starchitect Zaha Hadid that’s currently being built...
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