Tianducheng 天都城 , is the Chinese Paris near Hangzhou, with a Parisian style architecture and a French themed amusement park. The new urban space is haunted by fantasies and dreams, offered by the government and the real estate market to foster contemporary fairytales, the specter of living somewhere else in another world. I visited Tianducheng on a rainy day in December 2016, when the air pollution exceeded its healthy level. The Eiffel tower slowly dissolved into invisibility in the smog.