Jottings from the Granite Studio

A Qing historian reads the newspaper…

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One Country, Two Prices

August 27th, 2006 · 4 Comments

From the excellent people over at EastSouthWestNorth comes this little tidbit of two stores located in Beijing’s Forbidden City with the rather cheeky signs: “只接待外宾、禁止国人入内” (”Only Foreign Guests received, Nationals strictly forbidden to enter.”) While there is no historical proof that the gates to the Shanghai parks in the 19th century really did prohibit dogs [...]

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