Tag: beijing

Even More Beijing!

While Beijing seems to operate on a larger scale than the rest of the world, ultimately its giant spaces tie together small moments in the lives of hundreds of people. Take, for example, Beijing's lake district. Lined with bars,...

Big Beijing

Beijing is a big city, and I don't just mean in the obvious blister-causing way. (The first couple days there we didn't realize how out-of-date our guidebook's subway map was, and ended up walking halfway across the city needlessly,...

Beijing

Our return to China filled me with a remarkably strong and surprising joy. Certainly some of this emotion can be explained by the lifting of the economic tension of being in Japan, and some of it by the warm...