The Fake China

After two weeks in Tianjin, I have finally got over the bad air and general difficulty of life in China - and got my Chinese blog started.I will publish photographs and reflections on 7 weeks in Tianjin, a Chinese coastal metropolis and historical concession town. I have chosen the title 'the fake China', because I've often heard people - Chinese or not - advise me to go west, or to the countryside, to discover 'the real China'. And I took a different approach - trusting that the coast, the interface, the cosmopolitan, is no more real than the central, the inland, the monocultural.The blog is published at thefakechina.wordpress.com - I don't pretend to understand or know better; I'm just trying to make sense of what I observe, hear and read from the world's new superpower. Comments are very welcome!