On Saturday morning I finished up a three-day training course that I had been teaching in Beijing, and needed to move out of my hotel go to a friend’s house. I normally would have just taken a taxi, but since I had a couple of suitcases, I knew I would need a bit of extra […]
Wangfujing, Then and Now
This morning I made a trek down to Wangfujing, Beijing’s main shopping street. I don’t go down there too often, but today one of the things I wanted to do was take a picture for a “then and now” set. This first photo was taken on the corner of Wangfujing and Changan Avenue, looking towards […]
An Outrageous Mountain Villa
It’s been a slow news week in Beijing, as evidenced by the fact that all of yesterday’s papers carried front page stories about “Beijing’s Most Outrageous Illegal Structure,” a rooftop apartment that has been transformed into a “mountain villa,” complete with rocks (styrofoam perhaps), trees, a karaoke club. Some reports even mentioned a swimming pool, […]
Chinese Bumper Stickers [5]
I’m back in Beijing for a few weeks, so it’s time for another installment of Chinese bumper stickers (or car stickers, as they are called here): EVERYONE IS RESPONSIBLE TO LOVE AND CHERISH ROOKIE DRIVERS This is playing off the “love and cherish….” signs that are everywhere in China. “Love and Cherish the People.” “Love […]
