American Bulls in the China Shops

In the womb, the human embryo recapitulates the stages of evolution, developing and shedding gills and tails. In the same way, the journey along the new privately built toll superhighway between Hong Kong and Guanchou is a recapitulation of the evolution of modern economies. It begins in the post-industrial Hong Kong, travels through the High Tech Shenzhen Special Economic Zone and on to neo-rust belt Guangchou. The cranes and building sites sprouting along the route up the Pearl River give