With 10 days until the Olympics commence in Beijing, half of the city’s up-and-coming establishments are exactly that, “up-and-coming” but have yet to arrive. In the three and a half weeks that I’ve been in the capital city, remarkable change has already taken place at the Olympic venues and retail stores in preparation for the [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Beijing'
Coming Soon: Beijing
July 29th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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In awe of the CCTV Tower
July 23rd, 2008 · 5 Comments
Among the many striking architecture feats that Beijing has undertaken to project its step forward to the modern world, the CCTV Tower stands out among the rest of the progressive buildings. An article in the Herald Tribune suggests that it couldn’t have been built a couple of years ago due to the amount of computing [...]
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China Pollution and my Lungs in Beijing
June 25th, 2008 · 8 Comments
As a person who will be more than traveling in Beijing this summer for the Olympics, but living there for 3 months, these statistics are enough to send me running back to my Tennessee hills. I genuinely care about my non-smoker lungs and prefer to preserve them from turning out like I’ve been smoking 2 packs of cigarettes a day for my entire life.
