China in the 80s. PICS!

[SonicIce]

whats the best scanner for photos?

 

[Born2bwire]

Dalian I think.

Shit, really? That must have been one hell of a 30 years for them.

 

[Mr. Pedantic]

That's Hong Kong...

lol

Damn, you're right. Can't believe I didn't notice...

 

[Broheim]

That's Hong Kong...

lol

 

[Eli]

I like how the pics are black and white, as if the 80 was soooo long ago.

 

[Shawn]

1980s or 1880s??

 

[TecHNooB]

do your parents tell you to avoid china at all costs? i'm taiwanese and that's all i hear

 

[Locut0s]

Didn't they have color film in the 80;s?

Yup it was the default. I don't know why these are in black and white. We don't even know who shot most of them.

 

[Locut0s]

Shit, really? That must have been one hell of a 30 years for them.

Yup this is Dalian now:

 

[Locut0s]

1980s or 1880s??

I know, the black and white + scratches really lend it that quality. It wasn't as backwards as it looks quite.

 

[Locut0s]

do your parents tell you to avoid china at all costs? i'm taiwanese and that's all i hear

Nope. I can understand that coming from a Taiwanese family. Taiwan and China have a love hate relationship (more hate sometimes). I've been back to China about 4 times since then and enjoyed every trip (well except the one where my father came down with serious food poisoning in the early 90s).

 

[Dr. Zaus]

I don't trust no feriner my-nor-it-ehs.

That's why the only people I trust are Chinese.

 

[Locut0s]

it's scary how fast humans can build shit when they really do think you will shoot their families.

You are thinking of the 50s and 60s. By the 70s China was already over most of their hellish communist period and had gone into really early communist/capitalist transition. The 70s and 80s still looked like communism but trust me it didn't feel like it compared to the cultural revolution period or any period during the worst communist regimes. The 90s and especially 2000s were an EPIC boom period. People didn't build because they were told to, they did so because they wanted to get rich.

 

[Locut0s]

lol

Damn, you're right. Can't believe I didn't notice...

Here's Shanghai's transition and this IS real:

 

[kyrax12]

Here's Shanghai's transition and this IS real:

What was the time transition between the two?

 

[Locut0s]

What was the time transition between the two?

http://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-1990-vs-2010-2010-6

1990 vs 2010, I don't know if that's exact. But I can confirm that's what it looked like in and around 1990 and definitely that's what it looks like now. So 20 years

 

[mmntech]

http://www.businessinsider.com/shanghai-1990-vs-2010-2010-6

1990 vs 2010, I don't know if that's exact. But I can confirm that's what it looked like in and around 1990 and definitely that's what it looks like now. So 20 years

The growth is staggering. My lady friend just returned to her home town of Handan in Hebei. Hasn't been there for almost 7 years. She says she was stunned by how much it had grown in a relatively short period. She was going to go back there to live but now that she's returned to take care of a sick relative, she wants the hell out. Way too crowded and polluted. Thankfully her mom recently moved here so she's eligible for Canadian Immigration's family reunification program.

 

[0roo0roo]

You are thinking of the 50s and 60s. By the 70s China was already over most of their hellish communist period and had gone into really early communist/capitalist transition. The 70s and 80s still looked like communism but trust me it didn't feel like it compared to the cultural revolution period or any period during the worst communist regimes. The 90s and especially 2000s were an EPIC boom period. People didn't build because they were told to, they did so because they wanted to get rich.

well sorta, they also could because they could roll over anyone that was in the way

then again we kinda need a bit of that now,enviro/heritage groups block everything in western countries

 

[Texashiker]

Its amazing what free trade does for the country that gets the jobs

 

[heavyiron8]

it's scary how fast humans can build shit when they really do think you will shoot their families.

Its scary how clueless and unaware some people are.

 

[OlafSicky]

BTW my parents are the ones hugging in the first shot.

Did this event traumatize you for life?:sneaky:


On a serious note, you speak Chinese and you haven't managed to get one of the UBC Chicks. You should be scoring left and right. When I was there they were giving it away., and begging you to take it.Just do i:thumbsup:

 

[Michael]

That's Hong Kong looking at Central from Kowloon during the nightly laser light show.

Michael

 

[Locut0s]

Did this event traumatize you for life?:sneaky:

wat? I know it's a joke but I'm not picking up on what you mean.

 

[Locut0s]

Its amazing what free trade does for the country that gets the jobs

True. The fact that this would happen was almost preordained from the time China decided it wanted to be a world power though.

 

[Texashiker]

True. The fact that this would happen was almost preordained from the time China decided it wanted to be a world power though.

Which has more influence,

China deciding it wants to be a world power - which it already has been for the past 40 years.

Companies wanting to exploit cheap labor in china?


With the rabid growth of china, and the rapid decline of the USA, I look for the dollar to be replaced as the world recognized economy.

The only thing left for china to do, is to build up its military strength. When china starts floating air craft carriers off the coast of California and Washington DC, I look for things to change. Who knows, we might ever enter into a new cold war with China.