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, […]
Big Screen Bells
Yesterday morning I attended the English service at the Haidian Christian Church in Beijing. It’s a fairly modern structure that sits in the middle of Zhongguancun, Beijing’s high-tech zone (locals call it China’s Silocon Valley). Even though the current building was opened in 2007 (just in time for the Olympics), the church itself dates back […]
