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Hutongs

dave chou - vjpedia [893]

The real culture of Beijing is the culture of the Hutong and courtyard...

Destinations: China | Beijing
Topics: Travel | People | Architecture

China's leaning towers face moment of truth

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

The firm of Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) won an international competition in 2002 to build the new headquarters for China Central Television, the country's state broadcaster. The CCTV...

Destinations: China | Beijing
Topics: Architecture

Film Review: Raise the Red Lantern

Celeste Heiter - cheiter [28,902]

Rivalry, treachery and conspiracy abound when concubine number four joins the palatial household of a wealthy Chinese aristocrat, where his other three wives are already ensconced. Wife number one is...

Destinations: China | Beijing
Topics: Culture | People | Literature | Performing Arts | Art | Ancient History | Architecture
Hutong residents moving ahead of demolition work.

Destruction of Beijing city center escalates

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In a controversial cultural preservation campaign that has residents howling, the Beijing government is planning to tear down shabby traditional homes in the Chinese capital's historic district and...

Destinations: China | Beijing
Topics: Economy | Architecture
Beijing residents play chequers in a doorway in Hutong. Beijing's Hutongs date back to the 12th century and are a labyrinth of brick houses with walled courtyards.

Retired artist in race against time to save memory of old Beijing

Agence-France Presse AFP - Global [28,188]

* * * * * Equipped with a simple camera, 71-year-old Beijing resident Lu Baohua is striving to record a world that is disappearing fast. The retired artist has spent four years taking thousands of...

Destinations: China | Beijing
Topics: Culture | Photography | Ancient History | Architecture

On and Around the Great Wall

Joe Lavin - jlavin [737]

As we take the highway to the Great Wall, it is obvious that my friends and I are not the only ones who have decided to see the wall during the May Day holiday. Most of China seems to be with us here...

Destinations: China | Beijing
Topics: Travel | Architecture
The day before the wrecking ball...

Death of a Beijing Flea Market

Joshua Samuel Brown - jbrown [10,401]

As the year 2002 draws to a close in Beijing, I find myself reflecting on how much change just one year has wrought. While much has fallen to the tender mercies of the wrecking ball, the place I'll...

Destinations: China | Beijing
Topics: Economy | Shopping | Architecture
This was taken on the Dragon River, not far from Yangshuo.

Chinese Reflections

Joshua Samuel Brown - jbrown [10,401]

Start I've long been fascinated with reflections, both my own (very narcissistic, I admit) and the images of buildings and nature as reflected in water. Travelling through China (especially the watery...

Destinations: China | Beijing
Topics: Culture | Adventure | Photography | Architecture
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