{"id":4910,"date":"2010-03-23T04:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T11:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/?p=4910"},"modified":"2010-03-22T04:57:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T11:57:10","slug":"modern-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/modern-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110492.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110492.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"zhengzhou&#039;s high rise apartments in the slums\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4906\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110492.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110492-187x250.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on what others have said, especially those who have only been to places like Beijing or Shanghai, and the propaganda from the Beijing Olympics, showing a modern China, I was expecting something different than I found. Sure, there are some modern buildings in Zhengzhou, and those living there claim that things have developed rapidly over the past couple decades, but most of what I saw looked like it was out of the pre-1970s era.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110490.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110490.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"cold war era buildings china\" width=\"628\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110490.jpg 628w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110490-196x250.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you look closely you can see that some kids were playing on the above building.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110474.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110474-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"china cold war past era lingers on today\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4907\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110474-800x599.jpg 800w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110474-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110474.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110517.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110517.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"prison or modern city street china zhengzhou\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110517.jpg 600w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/P1110517-187x250.jpg 187w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many of the buildings and walls around town made things look like a prison. The constant, extreme air pollution added the gas chamber element to complete the less-than-pretty picture. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on what others have said, especially those who have only been to places like Beijing or Shanghai, and the propaganda from the Beijing Olympics, showing a modern China, I was expecting something different than I found. Sure, there are some modern buildings in Zhengzhou, and those living there claim that things have developed rapidly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[262],"tags":[175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4916,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4910\/revisions\/4916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}