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The Olympics are almost over, and Beijing is on the brink of resuming to normalcy. Here are some more random thoughts and observations about the Games as we count down to the end.
Thumbs up to Olympic Organizers for making sure concession prices were so cheap even migrant workers could afford them....
Yesterday my friend Joe and I wanted to see some live Olympic action. Tickets have long been sold out, and the only way to acquire them is to buy them off of the second hand market. We had been told by Chinese friends that scalpers were charging outrageous sums, even for the most obscure [...]
The Beijing Olympiad is almost three days old. Here are my initial thoughts.
-The “completely sold out” tickets for most events are cheap and widely available. Every day I have been picking events, showing up at the gate, and looking for second hand tickets.
Other than high demand events like...
I’m generally pretty skeptical when it comes to Chinese propaganda banners, but occasionally comes one so poignant, even in its vagueness, that I find myself nodding in agreement. This baner is currently on display in the center of “T” Square. Loosely translated it means, “The...
CCTV chopper above Jianguomen Beijing's Ming and Qing dynasty emperors did not allow anyone to build structures higher than those of the Forbidden City, and their suspicion of tall buildings was passed on to Beijing's communist rulers, at least until the late 1980s. The Beijing government has also never...
In anticipation for that particular event which will be coming upon in Beijing on 8/8/08, the new transit line connecting Beijing Capital Airport with the city subway system was opened on Saturday. On Monday I had to catch a flight to Wenzhou and decided to check it out first hand.
Please excuse the...
Three weeks ago I wrote a post about the changes Beijing has witnessed between 2006 and 2008. Just yesterday I returned from a brief trip to Dongbei to find the Beijing of today vastly different from the one I left only one week ago. China’s capital city is currently in the home stretch of [...]
Qianmen - detail of Lois Conner photo China Heritage Quarterly has published its 14th issue online, and it's mostly about Beijing. Some of the articles are: Dai Qing: 1948: How Peaceful was the Liberation of Beiping? The transcript of historical investigative journalist Dai Qing’s 2007 lecture in which...