Via BoingBoing. Bunnie Huang blogs about his encounters and experiences with Chinese Mainland manufacturing culture. Here's a live link to his blog category Made in China.

Reminiscent of Neal Stephenson. Factory complexes big enough to have their own border control and freeway exits, for instance.

Foxconn is where all of the iPods and iPhones are made. It’s a huge facility, apparently with over 250,000 employees, and it has its own special free trade status. The entire facility is walled off and you apparently need to have your passport and clear customs to get into the facility…just short of the nuclear-powered robotic dogs from the nation-corporation franchulates of Snowcrash.