Beijing Retrospective: 10 Years Later
2007 I landed in Beijing on January 29th, 2007 on my first trip to Asia at…
Category: Beijing
Political capital of China
Traversing Jiankou Great Wall
Almost exactly 10 years after I first arrived in Beijing in 2007 I found myself back there…
1 in a Billion: China’s Human Flesh Search
A friend of mine, Cai Qing, was recently in Chaoyang Park (Beijing) when she noticed a…
Hard Boiled Feng Shui
In my last post from Beijing (for now) we take a trip to a remarkable new…
Beijing 2009: Then and Now
Two years have passed since I spent three months in Beijing in 2007 and it only…
Olympic Birds Nest
For the first time since its completion I finally had a chance to see Beijing’s centrepiece…
2 Minutes in Beijing
Below is a short video I put together from shots I took during my trip to…
Exotic Street Food
One of the great things about China is the staggering variety of snack food available on…
Flying Doraemon
Whilst studying Japanese at university in 2004 I wrote a post about a hugely popular cartoon…
Spectacular
I only have one word to describe the opening ceremony to the Beijing 2008 Olympics –…
Peking University Ruins
One of my most curious discoveries in Beijing came on my final day when I visited…
Art 798 District
One of the last things you would expect to find in a former military factory zone…