5/26/2003
Embracing the new international image, Beijing's modern office and department buildings are swallowing some deeply-rooted historical sites, where peole live for generations while the life condition and environment is poor.
Nanyingfang, which is near the city center and home to thousands of poor but proud people , is to become the lastest victim of Beijing's modern construction effort, according to the New York Times.
Business is developing so fast that Hou Hai (Back Sea) is becoming a cluster of bars, replacing Sanlitun, traditionally the center for the bar-goers and recently deserted thanks to the SARS.
Cityweekend, a biweekly entertainment magazine in Beijing, questions what will happen next to one of Beijing's most historic areas which survives the city's modernization.
The north bank of Hou Hai is less attractive but more notorious as cars are jamming in the narrow drive and people are talking loudly amid the noisy music from bars and cars. Vanished the tranquility I enjoyed one year ago.
Nanyingfang, which is near the city center and home to thousands of poor but proud people , is to become the lastest victim of Beijing's modern construction effort, according to the New York Times.
Business is developing so fast that Hou Hai (Back Sea) is becoming a cluster of bars, replacing Sanlitun, traditionally the center for the bar-goers and recently deserted thanks to the SARS.
Cityweekend, a biweekly entertainment magazine in Beijing, questions what will happen next to one of Beijing's most historic areas which survives the city's modernization.
The north bank of Hou Hai is less attractive but more notorious as cars are jamming in the narrow drive and people are talking loudly amid the noisy music from bars and cars. Vanished the tranquility I enjoyed one year ago.
# posted by Intelligent Being @ 12:32 
