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Tag Archives: heritage
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
Posted in 1510 Digest, Business and the Economy, Traditions, Urban Culture and Cities, Wildlife, Nature and the Environment
Tagged Danwei.com, development, heritage, hukou, Nanjing, tourism, Urbanization
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T’ien Hsia Monthly and past anniversary parades
A new issue of China Heritage Quarterly, and it’s a feast.
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.
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.
Posted in The Earnshaw Vault
Tagged Beijing, Graham Earnshaw, heritage, Reform and Opening Up, restaurants
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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.
Posted in Front Page of the Day
Tagged Bank of China, Cultural Revolution, heritage, Lhasa, Olympics, revolution, The Beijing News, Tibet, Wahaha
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The last days of an old temple
A Hard Hard Hat Show about Xiefangde Temple and its imminent destruction.
Posted in Featured Video
Tagged architecture, heritage, urban planning, Xiefangde Temple
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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
Posted in Beijing
Tagged Beijing, George Morrison, heritage, Wangfujing
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The future of the Friendship Store
Plans and a drawing of the future Friendship Store.
Posted in Architecture
Tagged architecture, Beijing, Friendship Store, heritage, preservation
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