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Published: 2006-03-30 08:25:56 +0000 UTC; Views: 1073; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 28
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old and new, take your pick.Beijing, 2006
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i love the comparison. I think i prefer old china.
Nice pictures, I think i have to visit Beijing
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im sure now that that hutong you took a photo of is destroyed, do you know? cause i live in China now and i lived in a beijing for a about a month and i dont remember seeing this beautiful hutong, you know every single city i go to in China they are destroying their old buildings for the new crappy ass looking high rises that are surounded by gates and it sucks that they are not preserving any of their culture here in China.
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haha my friend, that is very true! altho if you just go out into the suburds like sshunyi and huairou, youll see this everywhere!
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Thanks - that's a real compliment
btw, first one was taken out of a moving bus
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I loved the old china while I was there. The new china was too hastily thrown up with too little thought, although thats probably changed by now. I don't miss the gray though. Good dichotomy. I've really enjoyed your series on China. Brings back a lot of memories.
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Its not that new china is bad, but it certainly has a "I've seen it somewhere else" feel to it, it's a bit too uniform for my taste. So visually I adore the originality of old hutong. But I walked around those areas and I think in some way new china is a much more comfortable place, although it lacks history.
I have hard feelings about it. I would hate to see hutongs gone, but I can't see I feel great for people who live there now.
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I was too young to fully appreciate what you must be seeing now, but I did see a man who had had his fingernails removed. You do have a point, I wouldn't wish the lifestyle of the hutongs now on anyone. It's really too bad that someone doesn't buy them out, refinish the interiors and sell them to expats, who'd love the history and location.
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Hmm I can't see expats living in places like that
I probably could... I wonder if there're many rats around...
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old of course :] But both look old, if you don't look at commercial signs =_O
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