It had never occurred to me that summer might be the Suzhou Travel rainiest time of year in China. The countryside was a green kaleidoscope. The train’s loud Suzhou Travel -speakers were never silent. The blaring of loud-speakers is something one learns not to hear; it’s such a continual jabber-jabber that I hardly ever notice whether they’re turned on or off. Most towns and villages also seem to have loud-speaker systems, they’re pervasive: Chinese voices relaying morning physical jerks, telling you that crop production has increased in neighbouring provinces, encouraging people to greater effort, praising good workers, broadcasting political speeches, and requesting people to give up spitting. That’s a loser.
Suzhou Travel Photo Gallery
Mobility and Automobility
In recent times social scientists have sought to account for the diverse, complex and interdependent nature of movement and flow within globalization processes by investigating a range of physical, informational, visual, imaginative and virtual movements that define contemporary social life. Writing in Sociology Beyond Societies, John Urry argues that the movement ofpeoples, objects, images, [capital] and information travel produce and reproduce social life and cultural forms’ (2000: 49) through modalities that relate to the contemporary experience of time, space, dwelling and citizenship. Additionally, Urry investigates these corporeal, informational, imaginative and virtual mobilities through concepts of metaphor and process’ (2000: 49). He also suggests that some of the material transformations that are remaking the social, especially those diverse mobilities that, through multiple senses, imaginative travel, movements of images and information, virtuality and physical movement, are materially constructing the social as society’ into the social as mobility’.
