How did I miss this? After the story about the fake lion in a Chinese zoo, as well the story about the fake beef in a Chinese factory, the internet was busy last week confirming the story about the Chinese apartment building with fake windows:

Qingdao’s local government later posted a message to their Weibo account saying that they had asked the contractors to remove the fake windows, explaining that they had created an “adverse social effect.”

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...