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This is John Batcheler this is an excerpt from a conversation with Chris Regal, my colleague,

The Scholar Report. We're looking at the story told by Anne Stevenson Yang of the ever-grand failure creating buildings that are unfinished.

Tall, very tall buildings in vast areas of artificial cities,

ghost cities, they were once called, but this is a specific example of

apartments sold to people who've invested their savings in that apartment.

It's not finished.

They move in anyway in these empty blocks and these super cities outside of city center where there's no good transportation, where there's unfinished landscaping where nobody much on the roads

the subways don't work but they move into the apartments. They put glass up on the windows,

they cook on open fires, they have no water, no electricity, no

heating in the building, so they make their own.

Camped out.

They take water, they take bottles from the refuse piles and carry water up from a local river.

They dig latrains outside and camp.

I tell this story because Chris reacts to it here about the

sturdiness of the Chinese people who have no easy remedy but here's Chris

Regal scholar.com on the resilience of the Chinese people who have

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