By Andy
One thing this trip has done for us is clarified the difference between villages (村), townships (乡), towns (镇), county seats (县城) and cities (市), which are all various administrative levels of government. Well, I still can’t tell you how the politics of it work or what sort of population a place has to have before it gets bumped up to the next administrative level, but I can tell you what sort of amenities can and cannot be found at each level and what the chances are of being hassled by the cops (on a scale of 1-5), assuming you’re a non-Asian foreigner: (more…)
