Originally Posted by
moondog
While I agree with you in the general sense (i.e. cities are morphing into shopping malls), interesting and rural is never far away.
I got lost in the area pictured below last weekend, and it's less than 10 miles from where I live.
There were also street vendors selling live pigeons and the like.
This stuff may interest you and a few others, but it ain't going on any China tourist brochure