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Nobody Knows Where Chinese Culture Is Heading

Posted by: Zvi Leve
Thanks to: Zvi Leve
10 March 2004 - 7:00am

In a headlong rush to modernise, China's people and traditions risk being left behind.

The Chinese Communist Party has always used architecture to present its public image. In the run-up to the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is changing its public face and redefining its image: it wants to be "ultra-modern, the essence of cool, designed by the best the world has to offer with money as no object." But the new crop of "extreme buildings" are sweeping away large swathes of the old city.

Full Story: Beijing's building revolution
Source: BBC News, March 9, 2004
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