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Heavy ex­ca­va­tors fit­ted with steel claws eat their way slowly but im­per­tur­bably through the final chunks of con­crete of a cu­rious tower. Local ar­chi­tects have gathe­red to collect pie­ces of rub­ble as sou­ve­nirs, and to ex­press their…

The frag­mented city re­ferred to above by Ab­douMaliq Si­mone, is also re­flected upon in a frag­mented way. The reader will search in vain for co­her­ence. An un­der­stand­able city map de­pict­ing the places of con­cen­tra­tion and in­ter­ven­t…

Be­sides some tall of­fice build­ings be­long­ing to China Petrol, the Daqing sky­line con­sists of a few clus­ters of apart­ment tow­ers and some oil in­stal­la­tions. In the evening the tall build­ings light up as bea­cons of ap­par­ent ac­tiv­i…