Category Archives: Beijing

Beijing’s most peaceful neighborhoods

The Beijing Times reports on the results of a poll of the city’s communities to name the fifty that are “most peaceful.”

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Rights lawyer Ni Yulan - from prison to a Beijing park

The lawyer Ni Yulan (倪玉兰) has been making the rounds on microblogs and the magazine world. Her story began when Beijing successfully won the bid to host the 2008 Olympics - and the municipal government promptly started to ‘beautify’ the city by razing houses and independently owned property.

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Beijing to merge downtown districts

Chongwen and Xuanwu Districts to disappear, reports The Beijing News. Also, a history of Beijing’s administrative divisions.

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Beijing’s famous graves

Places named after graves in Beijing.

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Love in Beijing for African women

Sexy Beijing‘s Su Fei interviews Zimbabwean Vimbayi Kajese, a news presenter on CCTV 9, about the dating scene for African women in Beijing.

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Slogans on Tiananmen Gate

In response to Daniel Gross, a look at how slogans have changed on Tiananmen and Xinhuamen.

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African Boots of Beijing

African Boots of Beijing, a 2006 documentary by Luke Mines and Jeremy Goldkorn about an African football team in Beijing, is now online. Part 2 is here (also on Youtube.

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David Spindler’s Great Wall

A Q&A with Great Wall expert David Spindler.

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Beijing flyover

Planes and helicopters over Beijing, October 1, 2009.

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The ground falls out from under Beijing’s business district (again)

A sinkhole opens up near Beijing’s Dawangqiao, not far away from the spot where another sinkhole turned up in 2007.

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