Mother Jones: People write about China's growth so much it's daunting to wring out something new. But--wow--when you see it for the first time in a few years, it still delivers one hell of a punch.
I lived in China for a year before the Beijing's 2008 Olympics (a kind of development event horizon in China's history, towards which the whole country hurtled), and I've been back regularly enough to marvel at changes first hand.
But I have never before been as dumbfounded as during a train ride this week from...