The Smithian

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art: photography by Sun Jun

[how they’re doing it] in Shanghai

…how two powerful human urges—to imitate the things we admire and/or envy, and to be in the vanguard of modernization—have played out in the histories of four of the world’s oddest and most prominent cities: St. Petersburg, Shanghai, Mumbai and Dubai.

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art: photography by Yang Jingy

[meaningful glance]

via Neocha.

…a new 24th [floor] swimming pool…in Shanghai, China, which has nothing underneath the deep end apart from a pane of toughened glass…the 30-metre-long pool lets guests feel like they’re “swimming over the air”…

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…riveting pictures…showing people in 25 countries dining, snacking and cooking…watermelon slices in Mumbai, India; brochettes of cheese and thyme on the beach in Bahia, Brazil; snails in Marrakesh, Morocco and Barcelona, Spain; pickles at the Carnegie Deli; huge Shanghai soup dumplings served with a straw, and crisp coriander-spiced duck in thin pastry from Vietnam.

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how they’re doing it in Shanghai.

how they’re doing it in Shanghai.