Reading & Reference

Here I am just collecting miscellaneous items for reference or further reading...

Choking on China, Environmental crisis, in "Foreign Affairs", July 2013:
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/139141/thomas-n-thompson/choking-on-china

Hauling New Treasure Along the Silk Road
NY Times 21July2013: Hauling new treasure along the silk road
How timely is this?  With a few photos.

China’s Great Uprooting: Moving 250 Million Into Cities
NY Times, 16June2013 Moving 250,000,000 million to cities..
A 12-year plan to move hundreds of millions of rural residents into cities is intended to spur economic growth, but could have unintended consequences, skeptics warn.


Mass Urbanization in China:
From the NY Times, Sunday, 16 June 2013, a slide show about mass urbanization

How China is Building "Soft Power"..
Moskowitz, Scott. "Beijing Does It Better." Foreign Affairs. 9 June 2013.

In the West, it is easy to dismiss Chinese attempts to build up its soft power as tone deaf. But China's efforts are not necessarily aimed at Western audiences. And in other parts of the world, its charm offensive has worked quite well.   (SCOTT MOSKOWITZ is a graduate student in sociology at Princeton.)

Traveling the Silk Road, Urumqui, Xinjiang Province.  NY Times 2004
NY Times 2004: Traveling in Xinjiang Province, Silk Road, Urumqui