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Author Archives: Lydia
Chinese fast food
A self-styled ‘Chinese fast food’ restaurant featuring a picture of an ocean liner.
Posted in Olympic Nights
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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.
Posted in Olympic Nights
Tagged Olympic, Olympic nights, Phone
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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.
Posted in Olympic Nights
Tagged Chess, nightlife, Olympic
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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.
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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Tagged Houhai, Olympic nights
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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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Tagged Beijing, Houhai, nightlife, Olympic, photographs
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When there were only a billion
In 1982, Graham Earnshaw noted that the population of China topped 1 billion people.
Posted in Government, Guest Contributor, The Earnshaw Vault
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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’.
Posted in Books, China Books, Guest Contributor
Tagged books, fiction, Mao Zedong, Xujun Eberlein
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