Yangshuo
The further inland you travel the more the traditional, dignified and quietly beautiful mainland China seems to assert itself against the bustling eastern seaboard epitomised by cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen. This division is a political contradiction with geopolitical implications, between cultural isolationism and globalisation, smoothed over only by the rigid centralism of the Party, anti-corruption drives and support of the people for the government. It is too easy, however, for the visitor to cognitively construct an unbending social traditionalism where in reality everything is in constant flux and with varying degrees of intensity. Capitalism, even when "managed responsibly" by the Party, is inherently anarchistic, and offers both liberty and enslavement in a single hand.
Yangshuo
The further inland you travel the more the traditional, dignified and quietly beautiful mainland China seems to assert itself against the bustling eastern seaboard epitomised by cities like Shanghai and Shenzhen. This division is a political contradiction with geopolitical implications, between cultural isolationism and globalisation, smoothed over only by the rigid centralism of the Party, anti-corruption drives and support of the people for the government. It is too easy, however, for the visitor to cognitively construct an unbending social traditionalism where in reality everything is in constant flux and with varying degrees of intensity. Capitalism, even when "managed responsibly" by the Party, is inherently anarchistic, and offers both liberty and enslavement in a single hand.