China is full of cool things. Here my favourites. I photographed them during my years in Shanghai and Beijing.
This train connects Shanghai and Beijing. It’s so fast that you can do a weekend trip and still see enough in the other city, even though it’s 1600 km. And it costs like 50 US Dollars:
Everybody lives in apartments. And these buildings are huge. You may very well have a view like this from your living room:
There is design stuff going on everywhere. China is the factory of the world, and they can build anything. And they do. You want to meet some designers, see a show car tonight? Somewhere, this will be going on:
The urban environment is very attractive and clean:
Restaurants are fantastic. Beautiful, great food, and patient waiters everywhere:
You can have new eyeglasses made for the price of a sandwich, while you wait and have tea:
Living conditions in the big apartment compounds are actually really nice and quiet. I was often sitting on my balcony in the evenings like this, in the middle of Shanghai:
The inner cities are incredibly full of light:
There are a myriad of different kinds of venues you can go and meet people, at all price levels:
The selection of products is absolutely crazy:
Every now and then, you bump into something that’s a thousand or so years old:
They put flowers everywhere:
You can eat great food at any time of day or night:
Interior designs are unbelievable, and fun:
You can have a cold beer or five any time, anywhere - and in the summer, you’ll want to:
The scale of the architecture is beyond anything you might have seen elsewhere. Everything is huge in China:
Taxis are everywhere. You want one, just hold out your hand, as if feeding a cow, and one should stop for you within seconds:
You can leave your umbrella at the entrance and lock it!
There are apples like this:
I am not sure what we are looking at, but it is remarkable:
Zero emission pickup trucks:
Bug screens that can carry the weight of an adolescent cat:
McD’s in Chinese:
Advanced, urban fashion:
Fast food chains you may not have heard of before:
People who keep the place squeaky clean:
Cool vehicles:
Extraterrestrial coffee:
Nifty movies:
Security guards everywhere - you are very safe:
A machine that predicts the future:
Trippy trip ships:
You can see huge buildings from above by climbing up an even huger building:
Not just huge, but actually interestingly built:
Cat cafés:
Hygiene is excellent:
Amazing parks:
Electric scooters everywhere:
Driving styles are mellow; you will never be afraid:
Crispy duck:
Dragons everywhere:
Scooters with roofs:
Space efficient living:
Vegetables you may never have seen before:
Yellow rice wine:
I think it’s cool, even if I am not sure what it does:
Well dressed dogs:
You may be living on the 27th floor, but you can hang up your washing in front of your window:
Bamboo stem bottle:
Cars from Mars: