Bird's Nest

Hutong Area and Silk Factory and Bird's Nest Stadium

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August 7th 2010
The Hutong area of Beijing represents the old residential district. The houses are hundreds of years old and are designed in a grid pattern, with 9 houses, three across and three down, forming the basis of the grid. Each set of nine houses shares a well. There are very few of these houses left. Although the structures are extremely simple and ten families must share a bathroom (yikes!), they repre ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more