Website review: Endless Assembly Lines and Giant Ca...
kostia discovered this in Business
•2 reviews since Jun 27, 2007
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kostia discovered 11 months ago- These photos make me feel better, not worse, about buying things made in China. Odd. From the page: "They produce 90 percent of the world's Christmas ornaments and they're not Christians, they don't even know what they're for or what they represent, but they make them because we buy them. They don't care what they're making as long as we buy it."
- laodan rated 8 months ago
- Inside China's Vast Factories via the excellent SU pages of herrcafe, in Wired 14 photos by Ed Burtynsky about China's factories
In the race for China to become the manufacturer to the world, bilateral agreements and minimum standards are not on the table -- it's more of a free-for-all. When I first went to Shanghai I said, 'my god this is capitalism on steroids.' It's totally pumped up and it's going a hundred miles an hour and they're loving it. "As long as I was on subjects they felt were representing China as a forward-thinking, progressive country, and as long as we didn't touch on any human-rights issues or mingle with unhappy natives, (the government) was pretty open to us capturing that aspect of China's manufacturing might within the new world order. They were happy with that type of interpretation. Endless Assembly Lines and Giant Cafeterias; Inside China's Vast Factories Ed Burtynsky's photos are a visual short cut to the immensity of what China has undertaken. What is at work here is the materialization of the plan of a visionary minority at the levers of China's power institutions. The planners of this industrial revolution rely on the vast historical background of the Chinese nation to inspire their foray into modernity. It's the revival of China's cultural legacy that powers China's immense economic success story and not the other way around. But this is simply not understood in the West and Western observers, left circling within the arcane assembling of their own cultural bias, fail to grasp what is really going there.
- Inside China's Vast Factories via the excellent SU pages of herrcafe, in Wired 14 photos by Ed Burtynsky about China's factories
