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China’s Space Dream

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Previous generations of Chinese scientists pursued their work in foreign countries. Today, having learned that the U.S. doesn’t want them, they are building their own vision of the future back home.

Matjaž Tančič for Noema Magazine Credits Jacob Dreyer is an editor and contributing writer for Noema based in Shanghai. Photography by Matjaž Tančič for Noema Magazine. 1. TAKE OFF (SHANGHAI) It’s almost impossible to visit the new astronomy museum here in China’s most populous city. Nearly half a year after it opened, when I visited last October it was so popular that tickets needed to be reserved weeks in advance. A project of the municipal government, the museum is a monument to Chinese middle class cultural optimism — a physical embodiment of the “scientific socialism” enshrined in the con

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