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Beijing, the invisible city

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Qianmen - detail of Lois Conner photo

China Heritage Quarterly has published its 14th issue online, and it's mostly about Beijing. Some of the articles are:

Dai Qing: 1948: How Peaceful was the Liberation of Beiping?
The transcript of historical investigative journalist Dai Qing’s 2007 lecture in which she discusses the 1948 ‘peaceful liberation’ of Beiping and the fate of some of the ancient city’s men of letters.

Beijing Reconstructs: Photographs of Lois Conner
A sample of of work by New York-based photographer Lois Conner who has been photographing China for nearly twenty-five years.

A Beijing That Isn't (Part I)
Geremie Barmé and Sang Ye look at plans for the capital that never made it past the drawing board.

The Chinese Attitude Towards the Past
An essay (also originally a lecture) by the renowned sinologist Pierre Ryckmans (aka Simon Leys).


Worrying China and New Sinology

What is the Chinese world? How do you define it, research it and teach it? Geremie Barmé sets out some of the agenda of his New Sinology program.

 
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This stuff is depressing. I had my first bowl of pig intestine soup and erguotou there and it's gone forever. This city blows now and its all because of two stupid weeks of jocks.
Complete brilliance.

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