The SOHO complexes around Beijing have always been one of the things I hate about this city most. Gray, modern and ugly, the sprawling developments are a blight on the city’s skyline. Everything about them screams “mistake.” How bad are they? Try finding the right building in Jianwai SOHO. Is it building 16 or 9 [...]
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I know. I’m biased. I bike. I live by a subway. I like to breathe clean air. So call me selfish, but these Olympic traffic restrictions should remain in place–indefinitely. The two that I’m referring to are the odd/even licenses and the ban on the filthy trucks that normally swarm the city at nights.
While it’s [...]
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The rhetoric and tactics that Hillary Clinton has pushed on China policy demonstrate everything that is wrong about her campaign, and herself as a politician. Publicly advocating that President Bush should boycott the opening ceremony in response to a pu-pu platter of offenses by the Chinese Government would not only fail to help promote progress [...]
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The Beijing subway map has always been interesting to me. Line one reaches tantalizingly far west, while line eight [correction: batong xian], the extension of line one, goes right off the map into an unknown, unexplained land. It’s almost as if the city is saying, “Don’t worry, no one important lives out there. If you [...]
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