The hybrid modernity of Shanghai and Chongqing. Two Chinese megalopoli along the Yangtze River
As a mirror?
The images of contemporary Chinese cities we find on Google Earth tend to resemble each other as Michele Bonino (Bonino, 2014) observes in his paper Chinese cities and us, referring to Rayner Banham’s idea (Suzuki H., Banham R., Kobayashi K., 1985) that the most attractive feature of Eastern Asia, if viewed from Europe, is working “as a mirror” in which to look at themselves.