illustration by Jacob Whibley

Do Avatars Dream of Electric Streets?

A virtual fantasia of China

by Mitch Moxley

illustration by Jacob Whibley

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As the digital sun rises, we conclude our conversation by making plans to meet in real life. Then China Tracy vanishes. I log out of Second Life and return to the world I’ve come to know over the past year. I’m at a Starbucks in downtown Beijing. Outside is traffic, noise, energy. Men in yellow construction hats. Modern China.
Mitch Moxley is a freelance journalist based in Beijing and writes on Asian politics and culture. 

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