{"id":2909,"date":"2013-06-18T15:56:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/?p=2909"},"modified":"2013-06-18T15:56:23","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T15:56:23","slug":"counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterfeit Paradises: The Halstatt of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/the-halstatt-of-china\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2911\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou01.jpg\" alt=\"The new Hallstatt in Guangdong is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province.\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2911\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou01.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou01-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"paragraph\">\n<p>Hallstatt didn&#8217;t even see it coming. The UNESCO World Heritage village nestled against a pristine lake in the Austrian alps hosts thousands of tourists drawn to its picturesque setting. Still, it didn&#8217;t realize some of them were slowly taking its measurements in order to recreate it as a whole in China. The new Hallstatt is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province. Although possibly a compliment to the original Hallstatt&#8217;s idyllic nature, many of the residents were quite stunned by the development. A local hotel owner told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/austria\/8582238\/Austrian-UNESCO-World-Heritage-village-outraged-at-plans-for-Chinese-copy.html\" title=\"The Telegraph - Austrian UNESCO World Heritage village outraged at plans for Chinese copy\" target=\"_blank\">The Telepgraph<\/a>, &#8220;I don&#8217;t like the idea of knowing that a team was present here for years measuring, and photographing, and studying us. I would have expected them to approach us directly \u2013 the whole thing reminds of a bit of Big Brother is watching.&#8221; Although the core of the new Hallstatt is finished, the developers continue to frantically build the surrounding units in order to capitalize on the publicity. It&#8217;s success lies on the reception of the ersatz Halstatt centerpiece.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/the-halstatt-of-china-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2912\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou02.jpg\" alt=\"The new Hallstatt in Guangdong is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province.\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou02.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou02-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/the-halstatt-of-china-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2913\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou03.jpg\" alt=\"The new Hallstatt in Guangdong is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2913\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou03.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou03-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/the-halstatt-of-china-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2914\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou04.jpg\" alt=\"The new Hallstatt in Guangdong is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou04.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou04-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/the-halstatt-of-china-5\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2915\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou05.jpg\" alt=\"The new Hallstatt in Guangdong is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou05.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou05-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/the-halstatt-of-china-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2916\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou06.jpg\" alt=\"The new Hallstatt in Guangdong is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2916\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou06.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou06-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/the-halstatt-of-china-7\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2917\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou07.jpg\" alt=\"The new Hallstatt in Guangdong is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province.\" width=\"460\" height=\"306\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2917\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou07.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou07-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a 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href=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/2013\/06\/18\/counterfeit_paradises_halstatt_of_china\/the-halstatt-of-china-9\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2919\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou09.jpg\" alt=\"The new Hallstatt in Guangdong is now the centerpiece of a massive luxury villa development set against a artificial lake in Guangdong province.\" width=\"950\" height=\"633\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2919\" srcset=\"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou09.jpg 950w, https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20121008_shanzhai_halstatt_austria_guangzhou09-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 950px) 100vw, 950px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hallstatt didn&#8217;t even see it coming. The UNESCO World Heritage village nestled against a pristine lake in the Austrian alps hosts thousands of tourists drawn to its picturesque setting. Still, it didn&#8217;t realize some of them were slowly taking its measurements in order to recreate it as a whole in China. The new Hallstatt is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[469,470,79,107,124,158,186,471,472,345],"class_list":["post-2909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-counterfeit_paradises_category","category-development_category","tag-alpine","tag-austria","tag-china","tag-counterfeit-paradises","tag-development","tag-fake","tag-guangdong","tag-hallstatt","tag-huizhou","tag-shanzhai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2909"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2980,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2909\/revisions\/2980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewniederhauser.com\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}