T he Causeway joining New Chusan and the Pudong Economic Zone was 
Atlantis/Shanghai's whole reason for existence, being in fact a titanic Feed 
restrained by mountainous thrust bearings at each end. From the standpoint of 
mass&cash flow, the physical territory of New Chusan itself, a lung of
smart coral respiring in the ocean, was nothing more or less than the 
fountainhead of China's consumer economy, its only function to spew megatons 
of nanostuff into the Middle Kingdom's ever-ramifying
Feed network, reaching 
millions of new peasants every month.