![]() ![]() The questions of the written driver's exam suggested a Middle class, for whom a car represented mobility, prosperity, modernity. In Beijing alone, almost a thousand new drivers registered on average each day, During that time I had traveled passively byīus and plane, boat and train I dozed across provinces and slept through The landscapes on the verge of change-that finally inspired me to get a Chineseīy the summer of 2001, when I applied to the Beijing Public Safety Traffic Bureau, I ![]() It was the thought of all that fleeting open space-the new roads to old places, TheyĬonnect villages whose residents traveled by foot less than a generation ago. Terraced fields that are destined to become the suburbs of tomorrow. Half-built factory districts and planned apartment complexes they wind through The boomtowns of the coast have their share of vacant streets. Highways to the Himalayas carry little traffic other than dust and wind. There are still empty roads in China, especially on the western steppes, where the ![]()
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