Shanghai Diary 2005 #8
A further entry in Justin O’Connor’s Shanghai Diary 2005 [context and introduction here]. This entry is dated 2nd July 2005, and sees Justin offer up his swollen toe as a device for comparing Chinese and British health services. I know NHS stories are boring but … sparing you the details of my swollen toe, I […]
Shanghai Diary 2005 #7
A further entry in Justin O’Connor’s Shanghai Diary 2005 [context and introduction here]. This entry is dated 1st July 2005, and in visiting a football match in Huangpu, and reading Momus’s blog, Justin discusses how the perceived homogeneity of Chinese working class – if that term makes sense at all – is differentiated from the […]
Shanghai Diary 2005 #6
A further entry in Justin O’Connor’s Shanghai Diary 2005 [context and introduction here]. This entry is dated June 29th. I had dinner with some people from my Chinese family. One cousin told me about his job. He works for an electricity company. It is owned by the state but all the different provinces are allowed […]
Shanghai Diary 2005 #5
A further entry in Justin O’Connor’s Shanghai Diary 2005 [context and introduction here]. This entry is dated June 28th, and in which we go to college. Text and images by Justin O’Connor. Went to one of the University campuses. As you would expect in a city of 15 million there are quite a few universities […]
Shanghai Diary 2005 #4
This second part of yesterday’s Shanghai Diary 2005 entry by Justin O’Connor continues to consider the place of arts and arts centres amidst Shanghai’s redevelopment. The Creek Art Centre was set up by a Norwegian-Chinese and Norwegian couple. He’s a wealthy businessman but wants to do something cultural. My friend at Park 19 says there […]
Shanghai Diary 2005 #2
The second part of yesterday’s opening entry of Justin O’Connor’s Shanghai Diary 2005 continues to explore the sense of difference between Shanghai and the West but also between Shanghai last year and Shanghai this year. There are echoes here of Rem Koolhaas’s conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, around speed of development, which I noted before. […]
Justin O’Connor’s Shanghai Diary 2005 #1
As I suggested last month, my friend Dr. Justin O’Connor is continuing the Shanghai Diary he started last year. The context and content has changed a fair bit, as you’ll come to read, but our intentions behind his writing and my publishing hasn’t – to convey the ‘everyday shock of this city via a collage […]
Shanghai Diary #6
We’re approaching the end of the Shanghai Diary series, written by Justin O’Connor. This latest entry is dated 17 August: “I wrote earlier that I was wracking my brains for some stored images of Shanghai’s past. I knew they were in there somewhere, and I found them. Last weekend I was taken out to the […]
Shanghai Diary #5
The next instalment in Justin O’Connor’s Shanghai Diary series [context and introduction to this series is here]. This entry is dated 11th August, as Justin heads on down the Yishan Road, currency converter in hand … The idea of speeded up modernity, telescoped modernity might come from a few facts gleaned from CCTV 9 – […]
Shanghai Diary #4
Another entry from Justin O’Connor’s ‘Shanghai Diary’, published below [context for these diary entries]. In which, our hero retreats from the heat and realises more Shanghai, fractured through visions of fantastic cities, future and historical … I’m trying (and struggling!) not to preface each entry with glowing praise – simply have a read and discover […]