Sinosphere
By OWEN GUO
BEIJING — China has at least 10 White Houses, four Arcs de Triomphe, a couple of Great Sphinxes and at least one Eiffel Tower.
Now a version of London’s Tower Bridge in the eastern Chinese city of Suzhou has rekindled a debate over China’s rush to copy foreign landmarks, as the country rethinks decades of urban experimentation that has produced an extraordinary number of knockoffs of world-renowned structures.
This week, photographs of the bridge were posted online by various news outlets. One headline proclaimed: “Suzhou’s Amazing ‘London Tower Bridge’: Even More Magnificent Than the Real
source http://www.omnipopmag.com/2017/03/02/sinosphere-10-white-houses-4-arcs-de-triomphe-2-sphinxes-now-chinas-tower-bridge-attracts-scorn/
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