Inside the Bird's Nest

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Beijing Two: Segways, Smog, The, Great and Wall.

July 11th 2011
The most striking thing when you emerge from the subway after fifty minutes or so of travelling underground from Tiananmen East station to the Olympic Stadium is not the light - like when people react like vampires as they walk out of the cinema in the daytime - it's not the stadium itself, or even the huge Olympic complex around it; it's the smog. The view of the stadium was so obscured t ... read more

Asia » China » Beijing

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

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