Wall Street Journal (February 9)
2013/ 02/ 11 by jd in Global News
“To show they are making it big, the Chinese have turned to faking it big.” Great architectural counterfeits are popping up all over China. “The copies are built as monuments to China’s technological prowess, affluence and power. The Chinese have seized on the icons of Western architecture as potent symbols for their own ascension to—and aspiration for—global supremacy.”
Tags: Architecture, China, Counterfeits, Monuments, Supremacy
