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I took advantage of the sunny skies to do some urban hiking through the legation quarter, up through Tiananmen Square and back over to Wangfujing. Some random TGIF thoughts: Today was a BLUE SKY day. We’re talking 蓝 freaking 天. First one of the Games and well timed too as track and field preliminaries kicked of today. The [...] Preparing for a walk in the neighborhood, I was looking at this old map of the Beijing legation quarter and playing a game to myself and trying to see if I could name all 13 legations as of 1912…US, Britain, France, Russia, Germany, Japan (those are easy), then Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, and Italy make a certain [...] Even in the middle of the Olympic Games, Beijing’s urban redevelopment plan grinds on. The Christian Science Monitor today reports on a home near Wangfujing where developers have continued to use violence and intimidation in a bid to remove the last holdouts from this valuable piece of central Beijing real estate. (Oh, and I highly recommend the [...] |
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