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Originally Posted by iheartthed
Globally, I'm not familiar with the more obscure Chinese cities with massive skylines, but Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Shenzhen should all probably be in the top 10.
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Not just speaking about skylines, but about urbanism, the inland Chinese cities are these huge unknowns that are rapidly being closed off behind a second iron curtain for us.
A city like Chongqing looks incredibly intriguing: it has a Manhattan's worth of skyscrapers plunked down on a Pittsburgh-esque landscape.
But China is becoming more of a hassle to visit, and I'm not getting any younger, so I will probably never see it in the flesh. For us Westerners, China is reverting back to a fantastical place in our imaginations, something Marco Polo-ish, rather than a "real place".