T Magazine: The Colossal Strangeness of China’s Most Excellent Tourist City

Ordos, like so many of the country’s hundreds of new towns, is famous for being empty — a symbol, some would say, of the hubris of rampant urbanization. But the few people who live there see it differently.

















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