Post Tagged with: "Beijing"
Training Journalism Students in China
Lee So Young talks with an American visitor in a Tsinghua University campus coffee shop on the northwest side of Beijing. A citizen of South Korea, she’s come here to study in part because it’s less expensive than her home country’s university system, but also because of the complicated media climate.
Texan’s BBQ Takes On Beijing
Tim’s Texas Bar-B-Q owner Tim Hilbert continues to bring Lone Star-style food to Beijing despite roadblocks posed by the City Urban Administrative and Law Enforcement Bureau, or Chengguan. Hilbert called the restaurant and his patrons his “family.”
Waking Up to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square
Sunrise, June 3: A phalanx of People’s Liberation Army soldiers marched in quick step from Beijing’s Forbidden City, escorting the Chinese national flag onto the broad expanse of Tiananmen Square. Despite the early hour, thousands of onlookers watched as the crack, green-suited honor guard hoisted the colors.
Buying a Six-String Guitar on Xinjieko Street
With a cigarette in one hand, Tao Lei navigated a playlist on his laptop with the other. Sporting black jeans and a T-shirt with the logo of the Finnish metal band HIM, the 20s-something shop owner sat surrounded by guitars in his 9 by 15 foot slice of Beijing’s Xinjieko musical instrument district.
Natooke Making Fixed-Gear Bikes Cool
When Ines Brunn first opened up Natooke, her fixed-gear bike shop in Beijing in 2009, it took a while for the idea of fixed-gear bikes to catch on with Chinese cyclists. Fixed-gear bikes are so named because they have only one gear on the back wheel that’s directly connected to the pedals.
China’s Burgeoning Wine Culture
Within the narrow alleys of Beijing’s historic Mao’er neighborhood, a wine bar with chic, minimalistic décor stands out amid gray stone facades. Wine 26 Twin Anchor is the second venture from 30-year-old Wang Ye Qing, who is part of a new generation of Chinese wine entrepreneurs offering a new taste to China.
Finding My Face Among the Crowd
Traveling abroad in China for 35 days was more insightful than I imagined and raised questions about my ethnic identity that I thought were resolved. As a Taiwanese-American, growing up in a Caucasian majority town, the only relation I had to my heritage was my family. I always asked myself, am I American or Taiwanese?