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China’s New ‘Ultra-Unreal’ Fiction: Only Strange Art Can Explain It Hao Jingfang explains impetus for writing “Folding Beijing”: “One morning, I was shopping at a street market just like the one described at the start of the story: Crowded, chaotic, dirty, lively, full of cheap goods piled up everywhere. Everyone was devoted to the task…
The Peking Aesthetes – China Channel An alienated community of foreigners in interwar Peking – Jeremiah Jenne In 1935, American scholar George N. Kates settled into a courtyard home in a Peking hutongjust north of the Forbidden City. “No electric light, no wooden floors, no heating apparatus except several cast iron stoves, and no plumbing…
The Years That Were Fat Peking 1933 1940 : George N Kates American’s memoir of Beijing in the 30s
A Foreigner in Beijing – China Channel Reflections of a returnee – Liuyu Ivy Chen When I arrived in Beijing in January, I paused on the sidewalk and looked up: the sky was blue, cloudless, immense. I went to college in this city, and often visited after graduation. Back then, Beijing’s sky was typically a…
Taken in Beijing, Oct 2018
Campaign to Drive Out Migrants Slams Beijing’s Best and Brightest Beijing is a cultural, technological and commercial capital as well as a political one, and the tenements on its outskirts are home to tens of thousands of hopeful young college graduates who have moved here seeking better jobs and better lives. These job seekers are…