24 September

We call the Chinese authoritarian. But maybe their more unified collective system is what they actually want. And what we actually want too, we just won't admit it. "The absence of vandalism is a very appealing aspect of life here in Shanghai. But the idea that someone would purposely destroy something that is meant to benefit society is so perplexing to the Chinese that it's almost impossible to explain to them how and why vandalism is such a major problem in the urban West."