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Urban redevelopment: a city’s life and death

This is the Thinking China Digest, a weekly roundup of recent essays and articles published on the Chinese web, with links to translations on the Marco Polo Project. This week’s digest is taking us through various aspects of China’s urbanization process. Zhang … Continue reading

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T’ien Hsia Monthly and past anniversary parades

A new issue of China Heritage Quarterly, and it’s a feast.

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Beijing, the invisible city

China Heritage Quarterly has published its 14th issue online, and it’s mostly about Beijing.

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Preserving traditional homes in Fujian

Hakka homes; the Haj and Uighur identity; Tibet flags on the mainland; discussions with the Dalai; mobile users up to 574 mil; Swedish TV channel loses Nobel; and a dreamy security officer.

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Beijing’s first private restaurant in The Daily Telegraph, 1980

A news article about Beijing’s first post Cultural Revolution private restaurant, orignally published in The Daily Telegraph in 1980.

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40 million new poor

China raised the poverty line from annual income of 1067 RMB to 1300. The change of the measurement caused a two-fold growth of China’s poor people: from 40 million to 80 million.

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The last days of an old temple

A Hard Hard Hat Show about Xiefangde Temple and its imminent destruction.

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George Morrison’s vanished Beijing library

The finest collection of China books in the world The online journal China Heritage Quarterly has a new issue out. The theme is the studio: “zhai, shuzhai, shufang—the scholar-writer’s place of creative engagement with the written word, or artistic practice. … Continue reading

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The future of the Friendship Store

Plans and a drawing of the future Friendship Store.

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