Author Archives: Lydia

Chinese fast food

A self-styled ‘Chinese fast food’ restaurant featuring a picture of an ocean liner.

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Night at a Beijing snack stand

A man awaits his night time snack.

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Night time phone call

A girl uses the phone at a local convenience store, stretching the cord to step outside for some privacy.

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Chinese chess by streetlight

Lydia Wallace will be posting nightly photos shot after sunset during the Olympics. After dark, men still gather under streetlights to watch and debating Chinese chess games. It seems there are bits of Beijing life unaltered by the Olympics.

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Ballroom dancing in the dark

Dancers on the south shore of Houhai Lake. Many older married couples are experienced dancers, stepping through stately waltzes to a time signature they keep in their head. Some women come with friends, taking turns leading. Though a crowd gathers to watch, people dance unselfconsciously.

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Nightime at a Houhai lakeside restaurant

Lydia Wallace will be posting nightly photos shot after sunset during the Olympics.Patrons of a restaurant by Houhai lake watch a singer preform inside.

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Lakeside stroll and Communist propaganda souvenirs

Lydia Wallace will be posting nightly photos shot after sunset during the Olympics.

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When there were only a billion

In 1982, Graham Earnshaw noted that the population of China topped 1 billion people.

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In Wang Shuo’s No Man’s Land

Geremie Barme addresses Wang Shuo’s 千万别把我当人.

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Swimming with Mao, a memoir essay

This memoir piece is by Xujun Eberlein, author of the new short story book Apologies Forthcoming’.

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