I particularly recommend the fried shrimp ‘n’ pumpkin dumplings

February 16, 2008 – 2:05 pm

Time Asia’s cover story this week is called The Short March (groan) and is described as follows:

In a migration dwarfing that of America after 1945, millions of newly affluent Chinese are moving to the vast suburbs rising on the fringes of the country’s megacities. This is the story of one family’s new home — and how the exodus will shake the world

You can also click to view a side multimedia presentation in which “TIME Senior Writer Bill Powell, who moved to a town outside Shanghai in 2006, talks about joining the millions of Chinese who are building the country’s booming suburbs.”

In other words, the article is about the relatively new trend of middle class Chinese moving out of big cities like Shanghai and into surrounding suburbs . . . AND HOW THIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD. And it’s written by . . . a middle class guy who moved out of Shanghai and into a suburb.

Coincidentally, I have decided that the next cover story in China International Business will be about the earth-shattering new trend of female business magazine editors who live just inside Beijing’s Second Ring Road who like to surf the internet on Saturday afternoons, while feeling slightly bloated from having eaten way too many dumplings the night before at a Tianjin dumpling joint across town . . . AND HOW THIS WILL CHANGE THE WORLD.

You must be logged in to post a comment.