Comments on: Urban Hiking Beijing: The Forbidden City

By: 花崗齋之愚公

花崗齋之愚公 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:11:00 +0000

x@y,

Doesn’t happen to me very much. First, I’m not the most cuddly-looking laowai. Second, since I have brown hair and brown eyes, most Chinese don’t feel I look authentically foreign enough for novelty pictures. They do however feel I look foreign enough to charge me triple at the veg market though. Go figure.

By: 花崗齋之愚公

花崗齋之愚公 — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:08:00 +0000

Tom,

Haven’t read it yet, but I’m looking forward to doing so.

By: x@y

x@y — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 15:01:00 +0000

I would expect one of your points to be ‘Having my photo taken with random strangers’.
When I have been to the F C I have been regularly asked by locals (from out of town I’d say) if they can take my photo with their wives. Others just try to get and angle on the wife so that I am in the background while I’m pondered which direction to head to next.

By: Tom - Daai Tou Laam

Tom - Daai Tou Laam — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 11:15:00 +0000

Have you looked at Aldrich's book? The Search for a Vanishing Beijing

If not, it seemed like a travel/historical narrative that might appeal to a historian.

By: 花崗齋之愚公

花崗齋之愚公 — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 08:37:00 +0000

Addendum to Anonymous,

I figure you knew this already…but I was being tongue-in-cheek. I didn’t hit anybody. You probably guessed that, but just in case…