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All Around Beijing

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March 29th 2008
As you may have heard, the quaint old Beijing neighborhoods are rapidly disappearing. The narrow winding lanes, or hutongs, with traditional courtyard houses and small tile-roofed single story homes (mostly lacking central heating and indoor plumbing) are going. Huge heavy walls are thrown up around city blocks of these and the sites are being completely transformed. EVERYWHERE Old Beijing is bein ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more