While most travelers come to this great land in order to see the famous structures it has erected – ancient walls, temples, and fortresses, or even the more recently built stadiums and towers – they regrettably miss out on another important, and arguably more impressive, sightseeing possibility. Here, not only can one...
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Dear Man Building a Brick Wall Over a Glass One,
That reminds me of something I once heard, an old Confucian proverb, perhaps: “Don’t build walls in front of windows,” I think it was. Something about possibilities, I suppose, or vision. Sound advice, though a little self-evident. Of course, the building of walls is part...
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Totally Awesome Picture of the week 52
“Makin it civilized, makin it fine, oh, we’re building a wall, so they can knock down mine!”
- verse one of the contemporary workers tune Ode to the Hutongs
A renaissance of blue-collar work-related musical creativity seems to be occurring throughout China. “Along with spreading capitalistic tendencies for...
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Selling Bricks
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Scavenging
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